About Katharine
Katharine Hoover is a licensed professional counselor in Colorado with 13 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, family conflict, parenting challenges, and depression. Katharine uses a straightforward style and aims to make small changes that add up over time.
She approaches sessions by listening first and then helping people notice strengths they already have. Katharine treats each person as the expert on their life and works alongside them to set clear, achievable goals.
Background and approach
Her style is calm and direct, with an emphasis on useful strategies rather than jargon. Many people come to her for help with attachment and communication problems. She also supports people facing divorce or separation, family of origin issues, and the emotional fallout from parenting stress.
Mood disorders, postpartum depression, seasonal affective disorder, and social anxiety are common topics she addresses. Katharine can also help with painful emotions like guilt, shame, isolation, and struggles with self-love. She offers practical tools for managing self-harm urges and building safer coping plans.
Conversations often focus on improving everyday routines and relationships so life feels more manageable. Sessions include talk, planning, and skill-building tailored to what each person needs. People who want a down-to-earth counselor who will listen and help make a step-by-step plan may find her approach helpful.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care
Katharine uses well-established, evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach she uses helps people learn skills to manage anxiety and mood symptoms through step-by-step strategies and behavior changes. Another approach focuses on improving communication and attachment patterns by identifying interaction habits and trying new, healthier ways of relating. These approaches are aimed at everyday problems such as worry, low mood, conflict with loved ones, and parenting stress.Finding the right method is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That means checking in, trying techniques, and adjusting the plan based on what works in real life.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy schedules. Video calls let conversations feel more like in-person sessions. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in between sessions, complete short reflections, or have a brief coaching-style exchange during a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, and family life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English