Katey Gagnidze-McCormick, PsyM,LMHC, SEP, is co-founder and co-director of the Georgian-American Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, a representative of the Somatic Experiencing® (SE™)International(SEI), an initiator and organizer of the Somatic Experiencing® (SE™)Training program in Georgia. Katey has been living and working in the United States of America for about 25 years. She is a clinical psychologist/psychotherapist, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner(SEP). Katey has 34 years of experience in clinical psychology and psychotherapy. She completed her graduate(1985) and post-graduate(1987-1991) studies in psychology with highest honors from Tbilisi State University. Her practice in clinical psychology started with geriatrics; she worked as a scientific research fellow and psychologist at the Experimental and Clinical Research Institute of Therapy in her home town of Tbilisi, Georgia. From the period of 1985 to 1998 she published over 20 scientific research papers in psychology in Georgia and internationally. She also co-authored a book of methodical recommendation in gerontology and geriatrics. Concurrently, Katey had a private psychotherapy practice helping individuals, families and couples. During this time, she completed many different psychological trainings, and she has also proven herself as an exceptional organizer and coordinator of scientific symposiums, seminars, and conferences. She is currently working at Behavioral Health Services of the Hudson Valley providing individual, family and group psychotherapy treatment. Katey for a couple of decades has been conducting psychodiagnosis, psychological evaluation, and clinical supervision for a couple of decades. Her professional experience in the United States includes: a victim’s advocate for a rape crisis intervention program, vocational/rehabilitation supervisor at the residential treatment center for alcohol and substance abuse treatment, clinical/forensic psychologist in prisons and juvenile detention centers. Katey is trained in various psychotherapeutic modalities including Psychodynamic (Classical Psychoanalysis, Jungian Analysis, and Group Psychoanalysis) Psycho-synthesis, Transactional analysis, CBT, DBT, Somatic Experiencing® (SE™), and Humanistic-Existential Analysis. Katey, together with her Georgian and American colleagues, has conducted psychological research for the past two years and participated in conferences of the International Society of Psychotherapeutic Research in Denver and Dublin. She continues her scientific research in clinical psychology and psychotherapy.
