About Katherine
Katherine Best is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people cope with stress and anxiety. She offers straightforward, compassionate care for mood struggles, grief, and relationship difficulties. Katherine works with adults in Pennsylvania and speaks English.
Katherine uses practical, talk-based methods to help clients make sense of painful emotions. She helps people identify patterns that keep them stuck and try small changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on improving communication and managing strong feelings. Her approach draws from attachment-based work and cognitive behavioral ideas to address how early relationships shape current reactions. She also uses client-centered and emotionally-focused methods to create space for honest feeling and clearer needs.
Existential themes - like life purpose and meaning - appear when people want deeper reflection. Katherine has six years of clinical experience as an LCSW, working with concerns such as depression, social anxiety, trauma, and caregiver stress. She supports people dealing with abandonment wounds, guilt and shame, and impulse control challenges.
Pregnancy and childbirth issues and women’s mental health are also areas she addresses. In sessions she aims to be respectful of each person’s spiritual perspective while keeping the work grounded and practical. People can expect a calm, attentive presence and concrete steps to try between meetings.
Therapy is paced to the client’s needs and goals.
Approaches that translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current reactions and bonds. Online sessions can help people notice those patterns, rebuild trust in relationships, and practice new ways of connecting with others.Client-centered therapy centers the person's own experience and priorities. In this approach the therapist listens closely and follows the client's pace, which works well across video, phone, or text formats for people who need a gentle, patient space to talk.
Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and then tests small behavior changes. It is practical and skill-focused, so it adapts well to online sessions that include homework, short skill drills, and real-time coaching.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Katherine will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan if something isn’t helping.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or camera use is difficult, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text messaging for quick reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats until the best match is found.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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