About Katharine
Katharine Alfs is a licensed counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. She practices in Florida and brings 44 years of experience to sessions. Her style is calm and steady, aimed at helping people find clearer ways to cope and feel more like themselves again.
Katharine focuses on practical skills people can use between sessions. She helps identify unhelpful thoughts and develop small behavior changes that reduce worry and lift mood.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing chronic illness, caregiving strain, workplace stress, and relationship challenges. Her approach is guided by the person in front of her. She listens first, then suggests tools that fit each person’s situation and cultural background.
That means therapy can look different from one person to the next depending on goals and needs. Over decades of practice she has worked with a range of concerns including panic attacks, social anxiety, depression, and self-esteem struggles. She draws on several well-known methods like cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness to build coping skills and new perspectives.
Katharine aims to make therapy a collaborative process. She helps people set realistic goals, track small changes, and adjust the plan if something isn’t working. For many people, that steady, flexible approach makes stressful moments easier to handle.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's concerns in a straightforward way. In online sessions this means time is spent understanding a person's goals and adjusting what comes next to match their needs. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches simple skills to shift those patterns. It works well for anxiety, panic, and low mood because homework and step-by-step practice can be done between sessions. Mindfulness therapy trains attention and acceptance through short practices and breath awareness to reduce reactivity and calm the nervous system.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, try techniques, and change course if something does not fit. That collaborative process helps match methods like CBT or mindfulness to specific concerns such as panic attacks, workplace stress, or coping with illness.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing nonverbal cues matters. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat or text-based messaging can be used for quick check-ins, homework review, or when written reflection feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats as needs change.
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- Experience
- 44 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Michigan
- Languages
- English
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