About Katina
Dr. Katina Hill-Thompson is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns. She draws on more than two decades of professional work to support people through stressful life changes.
Her style is respectful and direct, and she aims to make the first steps feel doable for someone who is worried or unsure. She adapts conversations and care to match each person's needs.
Background and approach
That means practical goals, clear next steps, and tools people can try between sessions. Dr. Hill-Thompson uses a mix of approaches to help with symptoms and day-to-day challenges rather than relying on one fixed method.
Her work includes attention to trauma and intimacy-related concerns, anger, low self-esteem, and mood conditions such as bipolar disorder. She also helps people facing parenting strain, family origin issues, and communication problems. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment themes, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and compassion fatigue.
Across sessions she often combines cognitive tools with acceptance and relationship-focused work. She helps people notice unhelpful patterns and practice new ways of relating to themselves and others. Sessions are meant to be collaborative and to leave people with concrete strategies they can use outside of the meeting.
Dr. Hill-Thompson holds the credential LCSW, and she practices in Florida. She offers care in English and welcomes international clients who choose online formats.
Her approach is straightforward and geared toward helping people make steady progress.
How therapeutic approaches work in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, invites people to notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck by them. It focuses on values-based action and can help with anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape current reactions; it can be useful for intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and communication problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, often offering concrete exercises for anxiety and mood concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day realities. That means trying tools, reviewing what helps, and adjusting the plan together as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets most of the usual therapeutic work happen in real time, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or camera use is not desired. Live chat and text work well for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or handling short-term coaching-style tasks between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into work, family, or travel schedules without losing continuity.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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