About Keith
Dr. Keith Cates offers a direct, person-centered approach that emphasizes practical steps and steady support. He brings 16 years of clinical experience and holds the LPC and LMHC credentials.
Dr. Cates works with people facing anxiety and stress, trauma and post-traumatic reactions, depression, and challenges with self-esteem and motivation. He focuses on helping people talk through immediate problems and build clearer next steps.
Sessions are tailored to each person’s situation, whether the issue is work, relationships, parenting strain, or questions about sexual identity and kink-friendly concerns.
Background and approach
He also has focused experience with first responder and veteran-related issues and compassion fatigue. Dr. Cates uses several therapy styles to match what each person needs.
He draws on eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for trauma work, mindfulness practices to manage stress and sleep, and solution-focused conversations to find manageable change. Existential conversations help people weigh values and meaning when life feels empty or confusing. His manner aims to be respectful and practical.
People can expect clear goals, feedback, and techniques they can try between sessions. The work is collaborative and paced to what the person can handle. Dr.
Cates practices in Alabama and provides services in English. He communicates about options and next steps so people can make informed choices about starting therapy.
How his approaches translate to online care
Dr. Cates uses EMDR and mindfulness as core tools in his work. EMDR involves guided attention and processing techniques to help reduce the impact of traumatic memories and related symptoms. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple, practical exercises to reduce stress, improve sleep, and increase focus in daily life.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. He will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then suggest a path that combines techniques that fit. Sessions often mix skill practice, brief homework, and focused processing so the plan can change as progress is made.
Online formats offer flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited local options. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for in-depth work, phone sessions can be easier when video is not possible, and live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep consistent appointments and to use therapy tools in real time during the week.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Alabama, Florida, Georgia
- Languages
- English
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