About Katie
Katie Smith is a licensed clinical social worker with five years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, and low self-esteem. She focuses on practical steps that can be used right away and keeps sessions direct and compassionate. Katie centers sessions on the person in front of her.
She uses a client-centered approach that respects each person's values and choices. Conversations are aimed at making small, useful changes rather than spending a lot of time on theory.
Background and approach
Her work emphasizes evidence-based techniques and measurable progress. Katie combines research-backed methods with everyday strategies to help people reduce anxiety, handle mood struggles, and improve focus when ADHD symptoms get in the way. She uses tools people can practice between sessions.
Katie has personal experience as a parent of a teenager with ADHD, and she draws on that perspective when supporting others facing similar challenges. That lived insight informs practical suggestions for daily routines, structure, and communication, while keeping attention on each person's goals.
People meet Katie for help with a wide range of concerns, including depression, obsessions and compulsions, relationship communication problems, attachment and adoption-related issues, and struggles with control or codependency. Sessions aim to build resilience and clearer ways to handle hard moments. She offers sessions in English and works with clients in Alabama.
Katie encourages straightforward goal setting and regular check-ins so progress is visible and therapy stays aligned with what matters most to the individual.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Two common evidence-based techniques Katie uses are practical skills training and structured problem-solving. Practical skills training focuses on short exercises people can try between sessions to reduce anxiety and improve focus. Structured problem-solving breaks bigger worries into reachable steps so problems feel less overwhelming.She also draws on cognitive strategies that help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test them against real-life evidence. These techniques help with anxiety, mood challenges, and repetitive thoughts or compulsions by offering concrete ways to shift daily habits and reactions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Katie works with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts plans based on what is or isn’t working so progress stays practical and grounded.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full session with face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging can support brief updates, problem-solving between sessions, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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