About Katherine
Katherine Howes is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Florida with six years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, anger, depression, relationship strain, grief, and other life challenges. Katherine uses a straightforward, respectful style and focuses on practical steps that fit each person's situation.
She aims to meet people where they are and build confidence to move forward. Sessions focus on identifying strengths, setting small goals, and practicing new skills between meetings.
Background and approach
She adapts the pace and language to match each person's needs and comfort level. Katherine's background includes work in juvenile justice and school systems. That experience shaped her ability to talk with people from many different backgrounds and life situations.
It also informs how she approaches family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and challenges tied to school or community settings. Her approach draws on client-centered listening and practical techniques such as cognitive behavioral methods, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative work. These tools are used to reduce distress, improve coping, and clarify values and goals.
Katherine pays attention to safety and to areas like substance concerns, eating and body image, gender dysphoria, and compassion fatigue. She works openly and without judgment to help people find steady progress. If someone wants to address anxiety, rebuild self-esteem, manage anger, or cope with a major life change, she offers a collaborative, goal-focused path forward.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and building a trusting relationship so the person feels heard and supported. It helps when someone needs a caring space to sort through feelings and choices.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors connect. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. It can be helpful for stress, anxiety, and coping with strong emotions.
Katherine will work collaboratively to find which approach or mix of approaches fits best. She adjusts methods based on the client's goals, needs, and what feels most comfortable during early sessions.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people talk face to face when that helps. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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