About Katie
Katie Smith is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing from North Carolina. She has five years of experience helping people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or major life changes. Katie uses clear, practical steps in sessions and listens without judgment.
She focuses on everyday problems as well as deeper wounds from trauma and abuse. That includes work on self-esteem, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting concerns, and challenges that come with blended families.
Background and approach
She also supports people coping with compassion fatigue, mood or personality difficulties, and issues tied to military life. Katie draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and build skills for managing strong emotions. She also uses mindfulness exercises and solution-focused techniques to find small, workable changes that fit a person's life.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about next steps. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She treats the person in front of her as the expert on their life and helps set goals together.
Sessions tend to be practical, with tools to try between meetings and space to talk through setbacks. Katie communicates in English and offers therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. She uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a brief matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling follows based on availability.
How Katie Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Katie often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and acting. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it breaks problems into smaller, manageable steps.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal effectiveness. DBT-style skills are helpful for strong emotions, intense relationship patterns, and crisis moments. Mindfulness techniques are woven in to help people notice thoughts and bodily states without getting swept away by them.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Katie will work with the person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and day-to-day life. Together they set practical goals and try tools, then adjust the plan based on what helps.
Online therapy offers flexibility and a range of ways to connect. Video calls let people talk face-to-face, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quicker check-ins, and text messaging works for ongoing, short updates. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to practice new skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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