About Katharine
Katharine Childress is a licensed professional counselor with 25 years of experience helping people make practical changes. She uses a client-centered style that guides each person at their own pace. Her approach focuses on small steps so progress feels doable from the start.
Katharine often combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. She also draws on solution-focused ideas to set clear, reachable goals and build on early wins.
Background and approach
This makes therapy feel constructive and forward-moving. In recent years she has emphasized mindfulness and the mind-body connection. That often means simple breathing, awareness exercises, and guided imagery to calm distress and improve sleep.
These practices pair well with work on anxiety, stress, and mood concerns. Her experience includes work in group homes, outpatient settings, and crisis situations, where she supported people through hectic and painful times. She has also worked with individuals facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, addiction concerns, grief, trauma, and life transitions.
Katharine helps people who are navigating depression, panic, bipolar mood issues, anger, low self-esteem, and problems with intimacy. She also addresses family-related stress like blended family dynamics, adoption and foster care questions, and caregiver strain. Sessions are offered in English and conducted from Arizona.
How therapy methods translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small actions in line with those values. Online ACT sessions often include exercises to notice thoughts and pick one value-based step to try between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting thought patterns and testing new behaviors; online CBT uses brief worksheets, behavioral experiments, and guided practice to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Mindfulness-based work teaches simple awareness and breathing practices that can be practiced during a session or between sessions to support sleep and stress management.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try techniques and adjust the plan so it fits daily life and produces practical early wins.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is helpful for in-depth conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for a brief check-in. Live chat or text messaging is useful for shorter updates, prompts, and step-by-step coaching between longer sessions. These options help therapy fit around work, caregiving, and busy schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English