About Kathryn
Kathryn Gargett, MD, LCPC helps people who are struggling with anxiety, stress, mood changes, and everyday life demands. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps clients can use right away. Her style is compassionate and direct, aimed at easing immediate worries and building lasting skills.
She uses approaches like cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Kathryn also draws on acceptance-based ideas to help clients clarify values and take workable steps toward them.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize skill building for self-regulation, emotional coping, and better day-to-day functioning. Kathryn has 14 years of clinical experience in Maryland and works with people who identify as neurodivergent, including those with ADHD and traits on the autism spectrum. She focuses on problems such as executive functioning, social challenges, and distress tolerance.
That background informs how she tailors session pacing and tools to each person’s needs. Typical sessions are collaborative and skills-focused. Clients can expect concrete tools, short practice exercises, and time to plan how to use new strategies between sessions.
Kathryn aims to make progress feel practical and measurable rather than abstract. Her work also covers concerns like relationships, grief, sleep problems, career strain, and issues tied to mood disorders. She emphasizes strengths and real-world solutions while helping clients set achievable goals and track small wins.
Evidence-based approaches for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name their core values and take small, meaningful actions even when worry or doubt shows up. It focuses on choosing steps that matter rather than trying to eliminate uncomfortable thoughts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches clear techniques for changing patterns that increase anxiety or low mood. DBT skills support distress tolerance and emotion regulation with short, practical strategies for high-intensity moments.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process and Kathryn approaches this collaboratively. She will work with each person to match techniques to their goals, pace, and daily life. Together they try methods, notice what helps, and adjust the plan based on what works in real situations.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people practice skills and see nonverbal cues, phone calls require less bandwidth, live chat can be used for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while keeping a steady course of skill practice and support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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