About Katy
Katy Kong is a Licensed Professional Counselor who provides focused, direct therapy for adults and couples in Texas. She approaches work plainly and practically, helping people who feel stuck in repeating patterns. Sessions aim to identify what keeps those cycles going and to build clearer ways of relating.
She often sees thoughtful, capable people who find themselves in defensive or withdrawn loops. Katy pays attention to how past hurt affects current reactions and relationships.
Background and approach
That perspective helps people notice patterns as they occur and understand what those behaviors are protecting. Katy has 13 years of experience working with adults on issues such as anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, trauma and addiction. She also supports people dealing with grief, career stress, compassion fatigue, and challenges around intimacy and self-esteem.
Parents and people managing long-term caregiving stress are included among her common focus areas. ADHD is a frequent focus in her practice, especially when it affects emotional regulation, communication, or self-worth. With couples she looks for reactive cycles and teaches skills for clearer, more accountable communication using methods drawn from relationship work.
Her style is structured and straightforward. Sessions move at a pace that challenges but stays manageable. People who want to look honestly at their patterns and make practical change tend to find this approach useful.
Approach-driven online therapy for relationships and patterns
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationship responses. It helps people notice where they pull away or react strongly and practice new ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers concrete skills for managing anxiety, depressive thinking, and unhelpful habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Katy will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals and preferences. Together they will track what helps and adjust the plan as needed so work stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy lives. Video lets people read facial cues during couples work, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for people balancing work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English