Katie Gerwel

Katie Gerwel is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Missouri, a National Certified Counselor and Perinatal Mental Health Certified (PMH-C) through Postpartum Support International. She owns Healthy Roots Counseling, a group practice in Republic, Missouri.

Her clinical work centers on the perinatal season and early motherhood: pregnancy, postpartum and the transition into motherhood, including perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, birth trauma, fertility challenges and pregnancy loss. She is an EMDRIA Certified EMDR therapist and uses EMDR with birth trauma, medical trauma and perinatal anxiety.

Katie earned her M.Ed. at the University of Missouri–St. Louis and co-hosts the podcast Therapists Unplugged. She teaches the way she practices: trauma-informed, practical and grounded in the belief that healing during the perinatal season is possible.