About Katherine
Katherine Shockley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey with 18 years of clinical experience. She helps people coping with anxiety, stress, depression, addiction, and other life challenges. Katherine aims to make sessions practical and focused so clients can use what they learn right away.
She started her career in neuroscience imaging and research and later returned to graduate school for a degree in mental health and addictions treatment.
Background and approach
That background gives her a strong foundation in how the brain and behavior connect. Katherine has worked with people across a wide range of needs, from serious mental illness to professionals seeking coaching for work and life. Sessions are collaborative and tailored to individual goals.
Katherine focuses on building on strengths clients already have and teaching ways to manage symptoms day to day. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and frames therapy as a skill-building process rather than a one-size-fits-all solution. Clients can expect straightforward, practical guidance for coping with grief, anger, relationship stress, career transitions, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports people facing chronic illness, caregiving stress, and the emotional fallout of trauma and abuse. Katherine emphasizes realistic steps toward change. She helps people reframe unhelpful thinking, practice new behaviors, and apply resilience in daily life.
Therapy is positioned as a path to clearer decision making, better stress management, and renewed confidence.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Therapy can use several straightforward, evidence-based techniques to address anxiety, stress, and related concerns. One common method helps people identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns by tracking thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence; this can reduce anxious and depressive reactions. Another useful approach focuses on behavioral strategies such as gradual exposure to feared situations, activity scheduling, and practicing coping skills to reduce avoidance and rebuild confidence.Finding the right mix of techniques is part of the work. Katherine will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, comfort level, and daily routines. That means sessions may start with practical coping tools, then shift to deeper pattern work as trust and clarity grow.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session is helpful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, skills coaching between sessions, or when someone prefers typing to talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and travel schedules while still using evidence-based techniques together with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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