Kasey Nightingale, LMSW
Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) (License #114129) | she/they
Supervised by: Carla Pelcastre, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Board Approved Supervisor (License #67765)
With curiosity, humor, and a relational approach, Kasey works with adults and couples navigating trauma, identity, relationships, and the patterns that can make life feel harder than it needs to be.
Kasey believes therapy is about more than simply understanding what happened. It is about noticing the patterns that developed along the way, understanding what those patterns have been trying to protect, and creating space to do something different. Her work is grounded in attachment and relational therapy, with a focus on helping clients better understand themselves, their emotions, and the relationships that matter most to them.
Her approach is collaborative, experiential, and honest. Kasey is not afraid to gently call attention to avoidance, patterns, or the places where clients may be getting stuck, while creating enough safety to actually explore what is underneath them. She brings warmth and humor into the room and believes therapy can be both meaningful and, occasionally, a little fun.
Kasey has a particular passion for working with LGBTQIA+ clients navigating identity, relationships, and belonging. As a queer therapist with lived experience, she understands the importance of having a therapist who can meet clients where they are without requiring them to explain or defend their identity. She supports clients through identity exploration, coming out and self-discovery, internalized shame, boundaries, relationship dynamics, and the process of building a life that feels genuinely their own.
In her work with couples, Kasey uses an attachment-focused approach to help partners understand the cycles they become caught in and the needs underneath conflict. She helps couples move beyond the surface-level argument to explore the deeper emotions, fears, and attachment needs driving the pattern. Her work welcomes the complexity of queer relationships, sexuality, and nontraditional relationship structures, creating space for couples to define what a healthy and connected relationship looks like for them.
Kasey brings approximately six years of experience working within child welfare and foster care, along with her own experience as a former foster parent. This combination of professional and lived experience gives her a unique understanding of how trauma, disrupted attachment, family systems, and early experiences can continue to shape relationships and emotional patterns into adulthood. Her background allows her to bring both clinical knowledge and a firsthand understanding of the complexity these experiences can carry, helping clients feel understood without having to explain every layer of their story.
Her clinical work draws from Emotionally Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems, EMDR, somatic approaches, and mindfulness-based practices. Rather than approaching these as one-size-fits-all tools, Kasey integrates them based on what each client needs, helping clients connect the dots between their experiences, emotions, bodies, relationships, and sense of self.
At the heart of Kasey's work is the belief that people are not broken simply because a pattern no longer works for them. Many of the ways we cope began as ways of adapting, protecting ourselves, or getting our needs met. Therapy can be a place to understand those patterns with compassion while building new ways of relating to yourself and the people you love.
Kasey offers both in-person and virtual therapy sessions at the Fort View office, with flexible availability, including evenings. If you're ready to better understand yourself, your relationships, and the patterns that keep getting in the way, reach out to schedule a consultation.
Kasey earned both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Social Work from the University of Texas at Arlington. Her clinical approach is grounded in attachment, relational, and trauma-informed care, with an emphasis on helping clients understand the connection between their emotions, internal experiences, relationships, and past experiences.
Her training includes Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), somatic approaches, and mindfulness-based practices. She integrates these frameworks flexibly based on each client's needs, using them to support emotional processing, greater self-understanding, and meaningful change.
Kasey's clinical experience includes working with LGBTQIA+ clients, trauma and attachment-related concerns, identity exploration, relationship challenges, and individuals navigating the lasting impact of difficult or disruptive early experiences. She brings particular attention to the ways people learn to relate to themselves and others through their experiences, helping clients explore patterns that may once have served a purpose but are no longer working for them.
Current Training
Kasey is currently completing clinical hours toward full clinical licensure and continuing to expand her training in trauma-focused and experiential approaches. She is particularly focused on deepening her work with EMDR, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and Internal Family Systems, and on integrating these approaches to support deeper emotional processing and lasting relational change.
Expertise
LGBTQIA+ Identity & Affirming Care
Depression & Self-Esteem
Anxiety & Mood Disorders
Trauma & PTSD
Life Transitions
Relationship Patterns
Coping Skills & Emotion Regulation
Boundaries & Self-Trust
Self-Harming & Suicidal Ideation
Family & Peer Relationships