Kat Dicken, LSW, CTGM
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About Me

I have always taken to interests of the geeky variety, my academic career and profession being no exception. As a life-long gamer who cared deeply for my Pokémon and Nintendogs, I also fell in love with Table-Top Role-Playing games with my partner and through my Certified Therapeutic Game Master program at Geek Therapeutics. My clinical specialties are obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), anxiety disorders, depression, and other presentations of neurodivergence. I earned my Master of Social Work in Advanced Practice in 2024 from the University of Denver and am now a practicing Licensed Social Worker. When I'm in the player's seat, you'll find me playing a bard or cleric; a support class with big personality! All clients are welcome and folks working on trauma, skill building, major life changes, and OCD/anxiety disorders will find a soft place to land.

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Individual Experience & Achievements

  • 6 months in OCD & Anxiety Intensive Outpatient as Individual and Group Therapist

  • 2-years Clinical Intern/Externship at Fort Lewis College Counseling Center

  • 1-year Internship in Child Welfare

  • 1.5-years Program Management and Directing for Mentorship at 2SLBGTQIA+ Non-Profit

  • Certified Therapeutic Game Master

  • University of Denver, Master of Social Work in Advanced Social Work Practice 2024

Concurrent Experience

  • 9 months Intensive Outpatient Group Therapist focusing on Trauma, DBT Skills, and OCD

  • 9 months as an Individual Therapist at a Group Practice

Professional Resume

Cultural and Personal History

  • I have lived most of my life in a bigger body, and currently do. I have been through a gastric sleeve surgery to improve my outcomes with PMOS, though acknowledge that the industry is rooted in fatphobia.

  • I have mental illness that I am privileged to have managed with therapy and medicine; including OCD and ADHD

  • I have been through the child welfare system due to having caregivers that are/were using substances and experiencing their own mental illnesses.

  • I am queer and am in a multicultural relationship.

  • My privileges are being white, having citizenship, able-bodied, and having a college education.

  • Every day is an endeavor to engage in anti-racist and anti-oppressive behavior and I remain open to correction and feedback as I continue to unravel my own internalized biases.

Cultural Resume

Thanks for reading this far! If you made it here, that means you’re probably thinking about booking a consultation. That’s great; I’m excited to meet you! When you are looking for a provider, you may be concerned about where they stand on moral and ethical grounds. My own personal values, as well as the values and ethics found in the Social Work Code of Ethics, inform the following stances:

  • Abolish I.C.E.

  • Black Lives Matter

  • Trans Lives Matter

  • No One is Illegal on Stolen Land, LAND BACK

This is written on the stolen lands belonging to Diné Bikéyah, Pueblos, Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute)tribes.

Visit https://native-land.ca/ to learn more about the stolen land on which you reside.

Social Work Values and Ethics

Applicable values and ethics that guide my abolitionist and social justice praxis

  • Value: Social Justice
    Ethical Principle:     Social workers challenge social injustice.

    Social workers pursue social change, particularly with and on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed individuals and groups of people. Social workers’ social change efforts are focused primarily on issues of poverty, unemployment, discrimination, and other forms of social injustice. These activities seek to promote sensitivity to and knowledge about oppression and cultural and ethnic diversity. Social workers strive to ensure access to needed information, services, and resources; equality of opportunity; and meaningful participation in decision making for all people.

  • Value: Dignity and Worth of the Person
    Ethical Principle: Social workers respect the inherent dignity and worth of the person.

    Social workers treat each person in a caring and respectful fashion, mindful of individual differences and cultural and ethnic diversity. Social workers promote clients’ socially responsible self-determination. Social workers seek to enhance clients’ capacity and opportunity to change and to address their own needs. Social workers are cognizant of their dual responsibility to clients and to the broader society. They seek to resolve conflicts between clients’ interests and the broader society’s interests in a socially responsible manner consistent with the values, ethical principles, and ethical standards of the profession.

  • Social workers should promote the general welfare of society, from local to global levels, and the development of people, their communities, and their environments. Social workers should advocate for living conditions conducive to the fulfillment of basic human needs and should promote social, economic, political, and cultural values and institutions that are compatible with the realization of social justice.

  • (a) Social workers should engage in social and political action that seeks to ensure that all people have equal access to the resources, employment, services, and opportunities they require to meet their basic human needs and to develop fully. Social workers should be aware of the impact of the political arena on practice and should advocate for changes in policy and legislation to improve social conditions to meet basic human needs and promote social justice.

    (b) Social workers should act to expand choice and opportunity for all people, with special regard for vulnerable, disadvantaged, oppressed, and exploited people and groups.

    (c) Social workers should promote conditions that encourage respect for cultural and social diversity within the United States and globally. Social workers should promote policies and practices that demonstrate respect for difference, support the expansion of cultural knowledge and resources, advocate for programs and institutions that demonstrate cultural competence, and promote policies that safeguard the rights of and confirm equity and social justice for all people.

    (d) Social workers should act to prevent and eliminate domination of, exploitation of, and discrimination against any person, group, or class on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, political belief, religion, immigration status, or mental or physical ability.