About Katherine
Katherine (Kate) Schenk is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania who focuses on anxiety and related concerns. She offers a calm, straightforward approach to help people manage stress, panic, and constant worry. Kate speaks plainly and helps clients set clear, achievable goals.
She combines practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy with acceptance and mindfulness strategies. Sessions aim to reduce unhelpful thoughts and increase actions aligned with personal values. Clients learn small skills to use between meetings and steps to test new behaviors in daily life.
Background and approach
Kate uses a client-centered stance that centers each person’s experience. She listens first, then collaborates on a plan that fits the individual. This approach is useful for people dealing with depression, grief, trauma, or life changes who want straightforward, practical help.
Her work also addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, addiction and process behaviors, ADHD, and a range of anxiety presentations including phobias and obsessive-compulsive patterns. She adapts interventions to match the concern and the person’s pace. With four years of licensed counseling experience, Kate has worked across clinical settings.
She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging for flexibility. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and collaborating with the person to shape goals. It focuses on understanding concerns and building a treatment path that fits the client's pace and values. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete strategies to shift unhelpful thinking and behaviors. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) combines acceptance and mindfulness with action planning to help people live in line with their values while managing distress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try techniques that match the concern, and adjust methods based on what proves helpful. Clients and the therapist work together to find the mix of skills and perspectives that fits best.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful for full conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text work well for brief check-ins, journaling between sessions, or when writing helps clarify thoughts. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and varied daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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