About Katie
Katie Parent is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and trauma. She creates a calm, respectful space where people can talk about what feels overwhelming. Her approach is steady and practical, focused on small changes that make daily life easier.
Katie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that connect thoughts, feelings, and body reactions. She pays attention to how past hurts and attachment patterns affect present relationships and self-worth.
Background and approach
Sessions typically include skills practice, gentle reflection, and tracking what helps between meetings. She also helps people work through body image, eating and food-related issues, and symptoms of panic or obsessive thinking. Katie listens for how shame, guilt, and impulsivity show up, and she supports people in building tolerance for difficult emotions.
The goal is clearer values and more usable coping tools. Katie works with adults on issues related to sexual assault and other forms of abuse, and she addresses post-traumatic stress in practical ways. She welcomes people of all gender identities and considers financial and life-purpose concerns alongside emotional health.
Based in Connecticut, Katie offers sessions in English by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. People begin by selecting Start Therapy, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to the therapist’s availability.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Katie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on how thoughts, feelings, and bodily reactions interact. One approach emphasizes skills training to manage panic, obsessive thinking, and anxiety by teaching breathing, grounding, and thought-challenging practices that can reduce immediate distress. Another approach looks at attachment and past hurts to understand current relationship patterns and self-esteem problems; this helps people notice repeating patterns and practice different responses.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and the challenges they bring. Together they try strategies, review what helps, and shift course when something isn’t working so treatment stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or mobility limits. Video calls let therapists and clients meet face to face when helpful. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option when video is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging make short check-ins or homework support easier between sessions. These formats make it possible to fit therapy into work breaks, childcare windows, or days when leaving home is hard.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Control issues
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut, New York
- Languages
- English
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