Kathy Purdy, LMFT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
20+ yrs experience
Updated August 20, 2026 How we verify
About
Kathy Purdy is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Newport Beach, California, specializing in trauma, PTSD, and complex emotional disturbance using DBT, EMDR, and mindfulness-based approaches.
Services
- Emotional Disturbance
- Trauma and PTSD
- Anxiety
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Chronic pain
- Coping skills
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflict
- Grief
- Life transitions
- Marital/premarital issues
- Parenting
- Pregnancy-related concerns
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-worth
- Suicidal ideation
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- EMDR
- Emotion-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Somatic therapy
- Trauma-Focused therapy
- Mindfulness and meditation-based approaches
State licenses
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California · License #113228 · LMFT Active
In the field
Sources
The facts on this page are drawn from 11 public sources and independently fact-checked before publication.
Psychology Today directory
- Identity anchor, credentials, specialties, issues treated, modalities, populations, insurance, session formats, license number 113228 (psychologytoday.com)
- Profile headshot image URL (photos.psychologytoday.com)
provider website (About page)
- Bio, education (Pepperdine M.A. 1996), DBT/EMDR training history, Ridhwan School study, RYT-200, headshot photo (kathypurdylmft.com)
provider website (home page)
- Practice name, tagline, license number, services offered (kathypurdylmft.com)
provider website (contact page)
- Email address [redacted] (kathypurdylmft.com)
NPPES registry
- NPI 1720638000, taxonomy Marriage & Family Therapist (106H00000X), practice address [redacted], enumeration date 2019-09-18, license 113228 CA (npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov)
Healthgrades directory
- Practice address/phone, association with Michele Lob A Professional Corporation, no reviews on file (healthgrades.com)
Medicarelist aggregator
- License status reported as Active in California, gender, NPI enumeration/update dates, does not participate in Medicare (medicarelist.com)
LinkedIn (search snippet only — profile page blocked automated fetch)
- Existence of a LinkedIn profile for Kathryn Purdy, LMFT (linkedin.com)
web search corroboration
- Affiliation with DBT Center of Orange County (Executive Director Michele Lob, PsyD), consistent with bio's mention of running the IOP program there for 5 years (psychologytoday.com)
podcast (Relational Spotlight)
- Guest appearance discussing the Caregivers Connect support group program (relational.com)