About Katherine
Katherine Howes is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, anger, depression, addictions, and relationship concerns. She also supports those facing grief, body image struggles, career questions, ADHD, and challenges tied to family and identity. Katherine aims to meet people where they are and help them move forward with confidence.
Her style is straightforward and respectful. She listens first and adapts the plan to fit each person.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on strengths and practical steps that fit everyday life. Katherine works to make progress feel achievable rather than overwhelming. Katherine has six years of professional experience.
Much of her work has been in juvenile justice and school settings, which shaped her ability to relate to people from varied backgrounds. That background helps her notice practical barriers and real-world stressors that affect daily functioning. She draws on methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and client-centered approaches to adjust what she uses to each person’s needs.
Sessions often include goal setting, skill practice, and ways to change unhelpful thoughts or routines. The aim is steady forward motion rather than quick fixes. Katherine will tailor conversations and plans to individual concerns like adoption and foster care issues, blended family dynamics, codependency, domestic violence, gender dysphoria, and openness about LGBT-related matters.
She uses plain language so people can act on what they learn between sessions.
How her therapeutic approaches translate online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and choices, with the therapist following an individual’s lead to build trust and clarify priorities. This approach helps when someone needs a supportive space to make sense of their feelings and decide what matters most.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills for changing patterns that cause distress. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and problems that show up in daily routines.
Mindfulness Therapy involves learning to notice thoughts and bodily sensations without harsh self-judgment, which can reduce reactivity and improve focus. It often pairs well with skill work to manage stress and overwhelm.
Katherine treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit, and adjust the plan based on what is helpful. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier and therapy more flexible. Video calls let people keep face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and varying routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English