Katie Grant Counseling

12/25/2025

12/25/2025

12/25/2025

🎄✨ Merry Christmas from Quad Cities Pride Alliance ✨🎄

Today, we’re holding space for all the ways Christmas shows up in our community. Whether you’re celebrating with family, chosen family, friends, or enjoying a quiet day of rest, we hope you feel safe, seen, and loved just as you are.

May this day bring moments of peace, comfort, and connection and a reminder that you belong, today and always. 🌈❤️

However you celebrate (or don’t), we’re grateful for you and proud to stand with our LGBTQIA+ community across the Quad Cities.

12/25/2025

12/02/2025

Imagine discovering something painful happened in your home years ago — and finding that the internet has nothing to offer you.

This is what happened to Brandy Black.

It’s also why 5WAVES exists today.

Most people will never know a certain kind of silence.

It’s the silence that falls over a family after discovering sibling se/ual trauma or abuse in their home.

The silence that comes right after the truth is spoken.

The silence that settles when parents realize they can’t turn to friends, relatives, or even their closest confidants.

And even as recently as five years ago, online resources were silent too.

A silence one of our co-founders, Brandy Black (pen name to protect her family), lived this firsthand.

When she discovered sibling se/ual trauma in her own home, she searched everywhere for guidance. She looked for books, articles, research, anything that could help.

But there was nothing.

So she did something extraordinary:
She wrote the first focused support site for sibling se/ual trauma and abuse.

That’s how she and Jane Epstein met. She was looking for a survivor to review her work. That conversation sparked the connections that became 5WAVES and changed lives.

This is the heavy burden so many families carry alone, until they find 5WAVES.
Parents are trying to protect the child who was harmed.
Parents are trying to protect the child who caused harm or abuse.
Siblings are caught in the middle.
No casseroles.
No check-in texts.
No “How can I help?”

Only silence.

If you’ve ever wondered why we talk about this work so openly, it’s because the people living through it often can’t.

But we can speak up.

Our nonprofit can speak out.

Together, we can build a world where families don’t have to choose between protecting their children and getting the support they need.

No one should have to trade silence for safety.

If you want to learn more about our mission or how to support this work through donations, visit 5WAVES.org. We rely on individual donations to cover expenses. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, donations are tax-deductible in the US.

12/02/2025

What you are capable of may surprise you.

11/21/2025

yes.

11/14/2025

openings exist for
CLINICAL CONSULTATION WITH
KATIE GRANT, MS, LCPC, LMHC, LPC, CCTP-II $200 / 1hr
discounted prepaid packages available at www.itsjafgo.com

KATIE GRANT IS AN EMDRIA APPROVED CONSULTANT
Katie participates in the EMDRIA UPLIFT program for consultants-in-training; more info here: https://www.emdriafoundation.org/support-initiative/upside-program-faq/

Katie can provide insights into your case(s) based on her two decades of training and experience in varied settings with diverse clients AND her lived experiences as a survivor of emotional and sexual abuse in childhood who became a q***r, disabled, plural/dissociative client of different therapists and modalities with complex trauma.

Katie’s expertise includes affirming therapy for q***r, trans, nonbinary, le***an, gay, bisexual, intersex, asexual, pansexual, two spirit, and/or neurodivergent clients, including autistic people and those who experience ADH, dissociative identities/plurality, and other atypical neurological profiles. Katie’s primary theoretical frameworks are client-centered therapy and EMDR Therapy/Adaptive Information Processing theory with ego state therapy/theory informed by neuropsychology. Katie also especially loves working with groups in therapy, support, and educational spaces, including group EMDR protocols.

11/14/2025

Other therapist consultation opportunities:

Friendly First Fridays: Affirming LGBTQIAP2S+ and ND clients
2 hrs
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$100
Next session December 5!

This two hour consultation group will focus on clinical applications of affirming therapy (including EMDR Therapy) for q***r, trans, nonbinary, le***an, gay, bisexual, intersex, asexual, pansexual, two spirit, and/or neurodivergent clients.

"Come as You Are:" the New and Improving Clinicians Couch
1 hr
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$25
Next session January 23!

This hour is for questions that feel like we should already know the answers--but we don't! Being a new mental health clinician can be very overwhelming, and we don't always get a supervisor that knows how to help us grow in the first few years following graduation and licensure. This is a place where there are "no dumb questions" and a soft place to land when feeling vulnerable and low on skills and experience. We can focus on the basics, point you in directions for good training or reading, and just help hold you when you're feeling "not good enough." You will leave feeling optimistic about what to do next. Come as you are on the FOURTH FRIDAY of each month (next meeting January 2026).

Individual consultation with Katie Grant, EMDRIA Approved Consultant
1 hrs
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$200
(discounted packages available at www.itsjafgo.com, Katie participates in the EMDRIA UPSIDE program) https://www.emdriafoundation.org/support-initiative/upside-program-faq/

11/14/2025

Still room in next week's virtual consultation group!

Third Thursdays Thinktank EMDR Consultation Group
2 hrs
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$100

This two hour group will support consultation regarding EMDR Therapy and will count towards certification (maximum of 10/20 required hours for EMDRIA certification can be in group format.