- Client-centered
- Mindfulness
- Goal focused
About Katharine
Katharine Childress is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years of practice. She uses a client-centered approach that helps people notice unhelpful patterns and take small steps toward change. Katharine emphasizes practical goals so clients can feel progress early and stay motivated.
She blends cognitive behavioral ideas and solution-focused techniques to keep sessions goal-directed. That means identifying a clear next step, testing it, and adjusting as needed. She also brings mindfulness and meditation into work when it fits a person’s needs, especially for stress, anxiety, sleep, and mood concerns.
Her background includes work in group homes, outpatient settings, crisis situations, and with families and couples. That range informs how she adapts conversations for different life moments like caregiving strain, separation, or fostering connections after adoption or foster care experiences. Sessions often focus on skills people can use between meetings, such as grounding, problem-solving, and communication practice.
Katharine pays attention to the mind-body connection and uses guided imagery and relaxation techniques with clients who find them helpful. She frames goals as small, achievable steps to build confidence. Many people come for help with anxiety, depression, relationship stress, addiction concerns, grief, and life transitions.
She works in Arizona and conducts sessions in English. Katharine aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for parents and individuals who need concrete ways to cope and move forward.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and take small committed actions toward those values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where motivation and direction feel unclear. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors influence each other and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with panic, mood issues, and sleep. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship and supports people in discovering their own solutions through empathic listening.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Katharine will work collaboratively to see which methods fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying an approach, checking how it feels, and adjusting if something else seems more useful.
The profile does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and avoid travel time. People often find that working this way helps them practice skills between meetings and brings therapy into everyday life without changing the therapeutic goals.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
25+ years
Credentials
Arizona
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address related to adoption and foster care?
She lists adoption and foster care among additional focus areas and can help people process related stress, attachment questions, and family adjustments.
What is her general therapeutic style?
She uses a client-centered approach combined with solution-focused and cognitive behavioral techniques to set practical steps toward change.
How much experience does she bring to sessions?
She has 25 years of clinical experience working in settings such as group homes, outpatient programs, crisis work, and family and couples contexts.
What credentials and region are listed for this therapist?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with an Arizona LPC credential and practices in Arizona.
Which languages are supported and can international clients schedule?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
The original profile does not specify session formats, so please confirm current session options before booking.
How is cost handled for therapy with her?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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