Katie McKenna
Katie McKenna is a Sunday Times bestselling author, social media personality and accredited psychotherapist specialising in emotional abuse and childhood trauma. She also co-hosts the In Sight podcast with Helen Villiers.
Website: insightpodcast.com
Instagram: @katiemckennapsychotherapist
Podcast: In Sight
Tik Tok: @KatieMcKennaTherapist
Website: katiemckenna.ie
Photo credit: Richard Naylor at Zoma
Biography
Katie McKenna is the co-author, alongside Helen Villiers, of the Sunday Times Bestseller You’re Not the Problem: The Impact of Narcissism and Emotional Abuse and How to Heal, published by Hachette in April 2024. It was an instant Sunday Times and Irish Bestseller. Katie has been a contributor to many podcasts, newspapers (USA Today), and a guest speaker on radio and television (FOX 26 Houston morning show).
Katie McKenna BA; MIACP, is an accredited psychotherapist specialising in childhood trauma, emotional abuse and parentification. With over a decade of clinical experience, she is accredited by the Irish Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy and runs a private practice in a G.P surgery and online. She has a cross-platform social media following of 500,000 (Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and Patreon). Katie graduated from IICP College in Dublin with a BA in Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy. She has a Level 9 Cert in CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and is currently training in EMDR therapy (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing).
Katie is passionate about educating and empowering people to break the generational trauma cycle of parentification and emotional abuse. This includes educating parents and offering practical advice on how to hold healthy boundaries and how to be a ‘good enough parent’ — without emotionally smothering children or being a passive parent or resorting to an authoritarian parenting style.
Together with the psychotherapist Helen Villiers, Katie co-hosts the successful podcast ‘In Sight – Exposing Narcissism’ Podcast (currently over a million downloads) on which she gets to live out a lifelong dream of playing agony aunt, responding to letters and offering insights and healing to those who write in and tune in. Through the podcast’s associated Facebook page and courses, she supports people specifically with Identifying narcissistic traits, understanding emotional abuse, coping with rejection, identity rebuilding and healing the wounds of their inner child after narcissistic parenting.
Katie and Helen have provided expert insights and comments to mainstream media including The BBC‘s Woman’s Hour, The independent, Hello magazine, The mirror, The Express, Tula, Yahoo News and Yahoo Life, Good to Know, Ireland Live, RTE Radio, Morning Ireland TV and Psychology Today.
Books
YOU’RE NOT THE PROBLEM, co-written by Katie McKenna and Helen Villiers, was published by Hachette/Yellow Kite in the UK and US Hodder in April 2024 in physical, audio and digital formats. It unpacks the fallout from being raised by narcissistic parents, offers a practical framework for how to recognise unhealthy patterns and provides tools to help those affected by long-term trauma to heal.
YOU’RE NOT THE PROBLEM is an instant Sunday Times and Irish Bestseller.
Praise for You’re Not the Problem
‘This book genuinely had me engulfed all week… love the book’ - Shay Kaur Grewal, BBC Radio London
‘A fantastic book, almost so detailed that we would have to go back to it time and time again’ - Oliver Callan, RTE Radio 1
US edition: YOU’RE NOT THE PROBLEM