About Katharine
Katharine Childress is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical, step-by-step work that helps people manage stress and anxiety and navigate life changes. She uses a client-centered style that puts the person's goals first.
Sessions focus on noticing patterns of behavior and finding small, doable steps toward change. This approach makes progress feel achievable rather than overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) tools are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and test them against real-life evidence.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices and meditation are offered to strengthen the mind-body connection and reduce reactivity to stress. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies help people clarify what matters most and move toward those values. Katharine emphasizes setting realistic, bite-sized goals so clients can feel success early and often.
Her background includes work in group homes, outpatient settings, and crisis situations. She has experience addressing a broad range of concerns including relationships, parenting, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, mood disorders, panic, sleep problems, and compassion fatigue. Katharine practices in Arizona and conducts sessions in English.
She aims to build a collaborative relationship that helps people find practical ways to feel steadier and more in control of daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and remote care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying what matters most and taking small actions that align with those values, even when anxiety or difficult feelings are present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test them against real-world evidence to reduce anxious habits and improve mood. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to lower reactivity and improve sleep and stress management.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Katharine will collaborate with each person to see which methods feel most useful, adjusting the plan based on goals, preferences, and what’s working in session. The process is practical and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on small steps and measurable progress.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues and more interactive exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer flexibility for brief touchpoints, journaling between sessions, or for people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule while keeping the focus on consistent, goal-driven work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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