About Katherine
Katherine Gatlin is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma and eating concerns. She works to make conversations feel simple and direct, so clients can talk about what matters most without feeling judged. Katherine draws on five years of practice in Wisconsin to guide that work.
Her sessions focus on creating a calm space where thoughts and feelings are named and understood. She encourages small steps toward change, so progress feels realistic.
Background and approach
People leave sessions with practical ideas to try between meetings. Katherine uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to spot unhelpful thinking patterns. She also draws on dialectical behavior skills to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Mindfulness techniques are woven in to help people stay present and reduce overwhelm. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or uncertain about change. Solution-focused methods are used to set short-term goals and track what’s working.
These methods are mixed to match each person’s needs and priorities. Her background includes supporting people with grief, addiction, self-esteem and intimacy-related struggles, as well as parenting concerns and adoption or foster-care issues. She has worked with people facing domestic violence, substance-related problems, and co-occurring conditions.
Katherine values collaboration and practical strategies that fit into everyday life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In online sessions this can mean tracking patterns together, practicing new responses, and assigning short exercises to use during the week to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms.Dialectical behavior therapy offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Remotely, a therapist can teach these skills, role-play conversations, and coach clients through distress-tolerance techniques during a live video or phone call.
Katherine treats finding the right approach as a collaborative step. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences and try methods that match their situation. Together they review what helps and make adjustments as needed so therapy stays practical and focused.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to fit care into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to practice skills, keep momentum, and access help from different locations.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English