About Kathryn
Kathryn Upton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with ten years of experience. She focuses on common concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and life transitions. Kathryn aims to create an open, respectful space where clients can talk through what matters most to them.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. Sessions focus on the client’s goals and practical steps rather than labels.
Background and approach
Kathryn uses strengths people already have and helps them apply those strengths to real situations. She blends client-centered work with solution-focused techniques and trauma-informed care. Mindfulness and motivational approaches are also part of how she helps people manage emotions and stay motivated for change.
This mix is used to tailor sessions to each person’s needs. People seeking help for adoption and foster care issues, blended family challenges, workplace stress, first responder concerns, or sexuality and identity matters can expect targeted attention to those topics. Kathryn also addresses ADHD, intimacy issues, anger, and young adult concerns in therapy.
Sessions are designed to set clear, achievable goals and track progress over time. Kathryn encourages honest conversation and practical steps between meetings. The aim is steady, manageable change that fits into everyday life.
Practical approaches for online sessions
Kathryn uses client-centered therapy to focus sessions on each person’s priorities and strengths. This approach means conversations follow what the client brings and sessions are shaped around personal goals. Mindfulness therapy is used to build simple, moment-to-moment skills for managing anxiety and stress and to help people notice patterns in thoughts and feelings. Motivational interviewing helps people find and strengthen their own reasons for change when facing challenges like addiction or career decisions.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Kathryn collaborates with clients to choose methods that fit the problem, their goals, and how they prefer to work. She adjusts techniques as progress is tracked and as needs change over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is low. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, homework support, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, parenting, or school schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English