About Katharine
Katharine "Katie" Blum is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana with over 11 years of clinical experience. Katie identifies as genderqueer (they/them) and aims to offer a warm, accepting space for people from the LGBT community. They emphasize collaboration and respect for each person's goals.
Katie centers the person in the room and treats them as the expert on their own life. Sessions focus on what a client wants to change and what feels meaningful to them.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and grounded, with steps that can be tried between visits. Their background includes work with anxiety, stress, grief, depression, ADHD, trauma and abuse, and relationship and intimacy concerns. They also address eating and body image issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and complications that come with co-occurring conditions.
Katie pays attention to how attachment, abandonment, and communication patterns shape day-to-day struggles. Katie uses evidence-informed approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness, and a client-centered stance. Those methods are woven into sessions in a way that matches a person's needs and energy.
Therapy can include skill-building, values work, and mindful practices. People who come to Katie often want straightforward support for navigating life changes, managing anxiety, or improving relationships. Katie works to make therapy understandable and useful so clients can try new ways of coping and notice what changes for them over time.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters to them and take steps toward those values even when worry or fear shows up. It mixes gentle acceptance skills with practical action planning. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxious patterns and improve mood. Mindfulness Therapy emphasizes simple attention and breathing practices that calm the nervous system and help with stress and overwhelm.Katie treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. They will talk with each person about goals, try strategies together, and adjust the mix of tools over time. Clients are invited to give feedback and shape what happens in sessions so the methods match their needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when video is not possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework support, or when someone prefers writing to talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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