Rev. Dr. Kate Wiebe, PsyD, PhD, MDiv, is a Psychologist (PSY35006), Professor, Theologian, Pastor, and Organizational Consultant located in the Pasadena, CA, area. Her research and practice areas include individual, couples, and group experiences of trauma and healing, disaster response, the strengths of high sensitivity, sexual addictions / challenges and health, organizational development, and biblical exegesis. Her initial curiosity into how faithful people often associate counseling as taboo eventually led her on a vocational mission to better understand healthy Christian faith practices and current understandings of trauma treatment and psychological healing. Today, she helps build bridges between students, couples or family members, congregation leaders, community leaders, and mental health professionals through her work as a professor, pastoral psychotherapist, disaster response specialist, and organizational consultant.
Rev. Dr. Wiebe's practice is grounded in the Bible and Judeo-Christian theologies, and informed by relational psychoanalysis, social relations theories, industrial/organizational psychology, and human development psychology. She is a skilled diagnostician who highly values the "village of care" that occurs when faith leaders, spiritual directors, social workers, medical professionals, and mental health professionals collaborate for best results. Rev. Dr. Wiebe is skilled in assessing complex relational dynamics, facilitating individual and group healing after trauma, and conducting practical re-solving and healing with individuals, families, and organizations. She provides organizational assessments and group debriefing, and can make informed referrals as needed for further professional support.
Rev. Dr. Wiebe founded the Institute for Collective Trauma and Growth (ICTG) in 2012, and directed it for ten years. She continues to provide subject matter expertise on topics related to natural disasters, mass shootings and attacks, and other forms of internal or external organizational crises. Her practical experience also includes directing and implementing care ministries among four congregations over twenty years, multiple psychotherapeutic practicums and pre- and post-graduate internships, many years of conducting life and professional coaching, and volunteering as a National Responder for Presbyterian Disaster Assistance for over a decade. Rev. Dr. Wiebe has responded to dozens of organizational crises and community disaster events throughout the United States, including tornadoes in the Midwest and Texas, hurricanes throughout the Gulf Coast and south Atlantic coastline, wildfires throughout California, and shootings or attacks in IL, TX, CT, CO, PA, NV, and CA, and come alongside leaders of government agencies, churches, schools, camps, businesses, and community groups. She has served as a subject matter expert related to topics of internal organizational crises (i.e., the sudden loss of a leader, revelation of the betrayal of a leader) or external community crises (i.e., natural disasters, mass shootings or attacks) to numerous government, nonprofit, academic, small business organizations, and long-term recovery groups.
When working with organizations, she helps to assess crises, discern mission and vision, and strategize steps for individual and collective healing and organizational development. Rev. Dr. Wiebe is a skilled fundraiser with both major and small gifts, and provides consulting for boards and leaders seeking to develop their fundraising abilities.
Currently, she serves as the Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology and PsyD Program Chair at Fuller School of Psychology and Marriage and Family Therapy, and maintains a small private practice at Bide Well Psychotherapy.
Rev. Dr. Wiebe received her BA from Gordon College, in Wenham, MA, her MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary, her PhD in Pastoral Theology, Personality, & Culture from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, and her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Santa Barbara. In 2005, she was recognized for her academic excellence in pastoral care and cultural analysis with the Princeton Theological Seminary Fellowship in Practical Theology.
Her personal passions include her growing family, travel, walking, culinary art, reading / listening to /or watching biographies, fictional novels, and mysteries, and celebrating with friends and family.
Rev. Dr. Wiebe's practice is grounded in the Bible and Judeo-Christian theologies, and informed by relational psychoanalysis, social relations theories, industrial/organizational psychology, and human development psychology. She is a skilled diagnostician who highly values the "village of care" that occurs when faith leaders, spiritual directors, social workers, medical professionals, and mental health professionals collaborate for best results. Rev. Dr. Wiebe is skilled in assessing complex relational dynamics, facilitating individual and group healing after trauma, and conducting practical re-solving and healing with individuals, families, and organizations. She provides organizational assessments and group debriefing, and can make informed referrals as needed for further professional support.
Rev. Dr. Wiebe founded the Institute for Collective Trauma and Growth (ICTG) in 2012, and directed it for ten years. She continues to provide subject matter expertise on topics related to natural disasters, mass shootings and attacks, and other forms of internal or external organizational crises. Her practical experience also includes directing and implementing care ministries among four congregations over twenty years, multiple psychotherapeutic practicums and pre- and post-graduate internships, many years of conducting life and professional coaching, and volunteering as a National Responder for Presbyterian Disaster Assistance for over a decade. Rev. Dr. Wiebe has responded to dozens of organizational crises and community disaster events throughout the United States, including tornadoes in the Midwest and Texas, hurricanes throughout the Gulf Coast and south Atlantic coastline, wildfires throughout California, and shootings or attacks in IL, TX, CT, CO, PA, NV, and CA, and come alongside leaders of government agencies, churches, schools, camps, businesses, and community groups. She has served as a subject matter expert related to topics of internal organizational crises (i.e., the sudden loss of a leader, revelation of the betrayal of a leader) or external community crises (i.e., natural disasters, mass shootings or attacks) to numerous government, nonprofit, academic, small business organizations, and long-term recovery groups.
When working with organizations, she helps to assess crises, discern mission and vision, and strategize steps for individual and collective healing and organizational development. Rev. Dr. Wiebe is a skilled fundraiser with both major and small gifts, and provides consulting for boards and leaders seeking to develop their fundraising abilities.
Currently, she serves as the Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology and PsyD Program Chair at Fuller School of Psychology and Marriage and Family Therapy, and maintains a small private practice at Bide Well Psychotherapy.
Rev. Dr. Wiebe received her BA from Gordon College, in Wenham, MA, her MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary, her PhD in Pastoral Theology, Personality, & Culture from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, and her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Santa Barbara. In 2005, she was recognized for her academic excellence in pastoral care and cultural analysis with the Princeton Theological Seminary Fellowship in Practical Theology.
Her personal passions include her growing family, travel, walking, culinary art, reading / listening to /or watching biographies, fictional novels, and mysteries, and celebrating with friends and family.
