About Katharine
Katharine "Katie" Blum is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Louisiana with 11 years of clinical experience. They identify as genderqueer (they/them) and aims to build a warm, respectful space for people, especially those in the LGBTQIA+ community. Katie centers each person's goals and values when planning care.
Katie prefers short, direct conversations that help people sort what matters most. Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
The therapist listens for strengths and then works with clients to use those strengths toward real changes. Neurodivergence is a notable focus, including support for people with Autism spectrum differences and ADHD. Katie also helps people handle grief, anxiety, depression, stress, and life transitions.
Other common topics include relationships, intimacy-related concerns, body image and eating issues, and coping with chronic health or caregiving stress. Therapeutic tools come from several well-known approaches. Katie draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients clarify values and take meaningful action.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify patterns of thought and behavior. Mindfulness and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are taught to build emotional regulation and reduce reactivity. Sessions are conversational and collaborative.
Katie treats each person as the expert on their life and helps them test small changes. The work aims to be realistic, paced to the person's needs, and focused on steps people can use outside sessions.
Approach and online options for real-life change
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small committed steps toward those values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, life changes, and motivation struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors to spot patterns that keep problems going and teaches practical strategies to change them. CBT is often used for anxiety, mood concerns, and unhelpful thinking patterns.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and needs and then adapt techniques from different models. That means work can emphasize values and action one week, then focus on skills for managing emotions the next - whichever fits the client's current priorities.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone works well when internet bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing brief support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or medical schedules while still using ACT, CBT, mindfulness, and related skills in everyday life.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English