About Kathryn
Kathryn Starratt is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with 24 years of experience based in New Hampshire. She works with adults, couples, and groups, offering steady support for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life changes. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, and she focuses on helping people reconnect with their strengths and values.
Her background includes work in Emergency Services and Community Mental Health. She has also worked with people connected to adoption and foster care, which shaped how she responds to complex family histories.
Background and approach
Those experiences inform practical ways to manage crisis moments and ongoing challenges. In sessions she uses person-centered practices and draws on evidence-based techniques like cognitive behavioral methods and trauma-focused therapy when helpful. She also incorporates solution-focused ideas and psychoeducation to teach skills people can use between visits.
Kathryn values straightforward conversation, a sense of humor, and an emphasis on resilience. People bring all kinds of concerns to her practice - relationship strain, parenting stress, intimacy questions, career shifts, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue among them. She helps people talk through what matters, build coping strategies, and set realistic steps for change.
Kathryn describes counseling as a shared journey. She aims to create a respectful space where people can try new ways of coping and slowly move toward goals they care about.
Practical approaches and online care
Many of Kathryn's methods come from evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-life change. Cognitive behavioral approaches help people notice unhelpful thought patterns and test new ways of thinking and behaving, which can reduce worry and improve daily functioning. Trauma-focused therapy addresses the impact of traumatic events by building safety, teaching coping skills, and helping people process painful memories at a pace that feels manageable.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kathryn will work together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, symptoms, and preferences. She explains options, tries approaches in session, and adjusts based on what is helpful for the individual.
Online therapy formats make it easier to fit care into busy lives. Video calls offer face-to-face conversation for deeper connection. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good option for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send shorter updates or work through moments between scheduled sessions. These options provide flexibility and let people get regular support without long travel times.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire
- Languages
- English
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