Katie Fries

Katie Fries is the founder and Clinical Director of All of You Therapy, a Philadelphia-based psychotherapy practice specializing in attachment, trauma, and relational healing. She works with children, teens, adults, and parents who are struggling with the lasting impact of difficult experiences, complicated relationships, and patterns that can feel impossible to change.

Katie believes that people make sense when we understand what they've been through. The ways we learn to protect ourselves, manage overwhelming emotions, and navigate relationships often develop for very good reasons, even when those same patterns eventually leave us feeling stuck, disconnected, or frustrated with ourselves.

Her approach is rooted in curiosity, compassion, and a deep respect for the ways our brains and nervous systems adapt to our experiences. Rather than focusing solely on symptoms or behaviors, Katie helps clients explore what's happening beneath the surface, including the emotions, memories, beliefs, and protective strategies that shape how they experience themselves and the world.

Katie has extensive training in attachment-focused, trauma-informed, and experiential psychotherapy, including Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Brainspotting, and play therapy. She is also a Registered Play Therapist (RPT) and has advanced training in Theraplay, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), and Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP).

In her work with children and families, Katie is particularly passionate about helping parents understand the needs beneath their children's behaviors. She approaches children with the belief that their struggles, whether anxiety, emotional overwhelm, withdrawal, perfectionism, or explosive reactions, deserve understanding rather than judgment. She helps parents move beyond power struggles and develop relationships grounded in safety, connection, and mutual understanding.

With adults, Katie often works with the impact of childhood experiences, attachment wounds, complex trauma, and relationships that have shaped how people see themselves. Her work invites clients to explore not only what they know intellectually about their experiences, but also the emotional and nervous system patterns that continue to influence their lives.

Katie brings warmth, authenticity, humor, and a genuine curiosity about the people she works with. She values creating a space where clients can show up with all the parts of themselves, including the ones they've learned to hide, criticize, or feel ashamed of.

Beyond her clinical work, Katie is passionate about training and mentoring other therapists, helping them develop more thoughtful, compassionate, and effective approaches to working with trauma and attachment.

At the heart of Katie's work is a simple belief: You make sense. And when we begin to understand ourselves with greater compassion, new possibilities for how we relate to ourselves and others can emerge.