Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist

Kate Tune

LMFT, ICEEFT Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist

As a marriage and family therapist, I approach therapy through a systemic and attachment-based lens, exploring how past and present relationships shape the way we experience ourselves and others. Our earliest emotional environments often teach us how to cope, protect, and connect—but those strategies aren’t always sustainable. Therapy can offer a space to explore and reshape those patterns.

My work is rooted in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), and other attachment-based approaches that honor the healing power of emotions and relationships. I specialize in working with couples and new parents navigating disconnection, communication struggles, and identity shifts. I also support adult individuals, adolescents, children, and families to learn to move through their emotions rather than around them—building confidence and resilience along the way.

In therapy, I strive to create a space where all parts of you are welcome. I view our work as a collaborative, non-pathologizing, and emotionally safe process—a place to be curious, vulnerable, and open to meaningful change. Whether you're processing a difficult past or feeling stuck in the present, therapy can reconnect you to your capacity for healing, growth, and secure connection—with yourself and with others. I care deeply about helping clients reconnect with their inner wisdom and build relationships that feel secure, honest, and nourishing.

I am a sex-positive, LGBTQIA+ affirming, and neurodiversity-informed therapist. I honor the complex ways that identity, family systems, and culture intersect in our emotional lives and aim to meet each client with curiosity, compassion, and non-judgment.

About Kate:

  • Loves reading, learning, and spending time with her husband, pets, and family

  • Enjoys crocheting, listening to music, practicing yoga, or spending time in nature—her own ways of creating, grounding, and recharging

  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a humanistic, evidence-based approach to psychotherapy, drawing primarily from attachment theory to facilitate the creation of secure, vibrant connection with self and others.

  • An attachment-based approach looks at the connection between a person’s early attachment experiences with primary caregivers - and the person’s ability to develop normally and ultimately form healthy emotional and physical relationships as an adult.

  • Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) addresses the mental health needs of people suffering from the destructive effects of early trauma.

Top Specialties:

  • Relationship Issues

  • Emotion Regulation & Mindfulness

  • Perinatal Mental Health

  • Family of Origin Exploration

Areas of Expertise:

  • ADHD

  • Adolescents

  • Affair Recovery

  • Anger Management

  • Anxiety

  • Body Positivity

  • Children

  • Co-Dependency

  • Coping Skills

  • Depression

  • Discernment Counseling

  • Divorce

  • Emerging Adults

  • Family Conflict

  • Grief

  • Identity Exploration

  • Life Transitions & Stress

  • Men’s Issues

  • Parenting

  • Peer Relationships

  • People Pleasing

  • Perfectionism

  • Premarital Counseling

  • Religious Trauma

  • Self Esteem

  • Shame

  • Substance Use or Abuse

  • Trauma & PTSD

  • Women’s Issues

Aetna

I’m in network with:


Anthem

BCBS PPO




Cigna / Evernorth

United Healthcare/Optum


Call (630) 940-6828 or email scheduling@paderatherapy.com to set up an appointment or schedule a 15-minute free phone consultation.

Kate is licensed in Illinois & Colorado.

“I strive to create an environment where you feel heard and understood; a sense of security & safety are crucial to any therapeutic space. We will focus on exploring how you relate to your own emotions and what you might do with them that gets in the way of communicating directly and vulnerably.”

— Kate Tune

Questions about insurance?

Give us a call or email scheduling@paderatherapy.com. We can often work with insurance companies if we are out-of-network. If we are an out-of-network provider or you do not have insurance, our rate is currently $135.00 for a 53 minute session. However, we also offer reduced rates in special circumstances. Finances should never be a deterrent for seeking help! We work with families to come up with a number that works for you.