About Katy
Katy Kong is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who offers direct, structured therapy for adults and couples across Texas. She focuses on helping people notice and change repeating patterns that keep them stuck. Sessions are straightforward and paced to challenge without overwhelming.
Katy often works with people who feel trapped by cycles like defensiveness, withdrawal, or constantly repeating the same arguments. She brings a trauma-informed lens, paying attention to how past experiences shape current reactions.
Background and approach
That helps clients understand what their patterns are doing and why they feel protective. She has substantial experience supporting adults with ADHD when it affects emotional regulation, communication, and self-esteem. In couples work she concentrates on spotting reactive cycles and building clearer, more accountable communication using practical skills rather than vague talk.
Katy uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs, including attachment-focused ideas to explore relationship patterns and cognitive strategies to shift unhelpful thinking. She keeps therapy grounded and action-oriented, so conversations move toward change. Clients can expect honest feedback and a steady structure in sessions.
The pace aims to be challenging but manageable, with attention to safety and what feels realistic for each person. If someone is ready to go beyond surface-level conversations, Katy helps translate insight into real steps forward.
Using attachment and cognitive approaches online
Katy uses Attachment-Based ideas to map relationship patterns and track how early bonds influence current reactions. This approach helps clarify why certain interactions trigger strong responses and supports building new, healthier ways of relating.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against experience. CBT offers practical tools for anxiety, low mood, and problems with self-esteem so people can try new behaviors between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Katy will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then tailor sessions so methods match each person’s needs. She frames this as a collaborative process where adjustments are expected as insight grows.
Online therapy gives flexibility to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for relational work, phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or better when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging are useful for brief check-ins or between-session support. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care while working on patterns, communication skills, and emotional regulation.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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