About Katie
Katie Thornton is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Texas who focuses on helping people facing anxiety and related concerns. She meets people where they are and aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable. Her approach centers on practical strategies and steady support so clients can build on strengths they already have.
Katie uses client-centered care to listen closely and shape sessions around each person's goals.
Background and approach
She blends cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking patterns and skills from dialectical behavior therapy to manage intense emotions. Trauma-focused methods, including EMDR when appropriate, are part of her work for people with past traumatic experiences.
She has three years of clinical experience working with a wide range of concerns, including grief, stress, ADHD, mood disorders, panic, addictions, and relationship and parenting struggles. Katie also addresses issues like body image, commitment worries, communication difficulties, and family of origin problems. Her background includes supporting people through major life changes and helping them regain daily functioning.
In sessions she aims to break problems into clear, doable steps. Clients can expect practical tools, simple homework when useful, and an emphasis on small wins. Katie collaborates on a plan that fits each person's life and pace.
Therapy is offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. She works with people across Texas and holds licensure as an LCSW.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and shaping sessions around what the client wants to achieve. It helps people feel heard and involved in deciding goals and next steps.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior. It teaches practical techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills for anxiety, panic, and mood concerns.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It is useful when stress, impulsivity, or relationship problems make daily life harder.
Katie treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will work with each person to choose which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjust the plan over time as progress and priorities change.
Online therapy offers flexibility that many people need. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when deeper conversation is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates, practice skills between sessions, or check in without scheduling a full call. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or caregiving routines and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Maine, Washington
- Languages
- English
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