About Katherine
Katherine Potts is a licensed social worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, relationship struggles, and life transitions. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can take to feel steadier day to day. Katherine is based in Michigan and brings ten years of clinical experience to sessions.
She holds a Master of Social Work from Wayne State University and uses that background to guide collaborative treatment. Katherine draws on cognitive behavioral work to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotional regulation and motivational interviewing to support change. In sessions she addresses a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, eating issues, and self-esteem. She also helps people with relationship and family problems, intimacy concerns, and the strain of caregiving or compassion fatigue.
Additional focal areas include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, codependency, and grief or loss. Katherine has experience supporting people who identify as adult children of alcoholics and those managing histories of mood instability or borderline personality diagnoses. She has co-facilitated DBT groups and incorporates skills training into individual work when helpful.
Conversations tend to center on clear goals, skill practice, and building coping tools that fit daily life. Her style is direct and empathetic. She works with clients to set small, achievable steps and to track progress over time.
Katherine invites people to bring what feels most urgent, and she helps them map a path forward.
Approaches and how online therapy fits
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. It is useful for people who want concrete tools to challenge negative thinking and try different ways of responding.DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, emphasizes skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness. These skills are taught in short, actionable steps and can help with mood instability, relationship conflict, and coping during crises.
Katherine views finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then try methods that match those needs. Adjustments are made over time so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online work can make regular therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions often require less bandwidth, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging lets people share thoughts between appointments. These options make it simpler to practice skills in real situations and stay connected when schedules are tight.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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