Kateri Ray
Kateri.ray@capella.edu
Dr. Kateri Picard Ray, Ph.D., LCSW, RYT is a social worker and a yoga practitioner/teacher. She is a certified Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator. She is also trained in Yoga Behind Bars to bring yoga practice to incarcerated populations. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Idaho Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health and serves as the Chair for the Inland Empire (Coeur d’Alene) Branch of NASW, Idaho. She provides clinical supervision for Clinical Social Work license candidates. She is a school counselor and part-time faculty member of Capella University’s Master of Social Work program. Her work experience includes service in a variety of capacities as a social worker. She worked extensively at the micro, mezzo and macro levels including private practice, day treatment, residential treatment, in-patient psychiatric and academia. She served for eight years as Assistant Professor and Field Coordinator at the BSW level, and has 13 years of clinical experience including Chief of Social Work, Children’s Mental Health, Clinical Director at a residential treatment center, and private practice as an individual and family therapist. In 2005, Dr. Ray was the recipient of the Director’s Award of Excellence and served on the Governor’s Round Table for Children’s Mental Health in 2004 and 2005. She developed multiple trainings for Psychosocial Rehabilitation Providers and is the former Chair of Region 1 Children’s Mental Health Council. In 2015 she was chosen by social work students at Lewis-Clark State College to receive the Spirit Award. She worked with a colleague to write a book chapter titled, Mental Health Services in the Schools: Collaboration in a Multi-tiered System, and recently co-authored an article titled, A Meta-Analysis of Approaches to Engage Social Work Student Online. Her passions include working from a strengths-based, trauma-informed perspective and integration of physical, mental, social, and spiritual aspects of treatment to promote a holistic approach to intervention.
