About Katherine
Katherine "Kate" Tower uses client-centered and evidence-informed methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - with fifteen years of experience and practices from Tennessee. Kate writes in plain terms and aims to make therapy understandable and practical for busy people.
Kate focuses on everyday problems that pile up and feel overwhelming. She helps people sort through work and career strain, grief, sleeping problems, and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also addresses concerns such as ADHD, addictions, trauma and abuse, and bipolar mood challenges in straightforward sessions. Her style blends acceptance-based ideas with skills training and mindful attention. Sessions often include noticing difficult thoughts, practicing grounding skills, and trying small experiments between meetings.
Clients can expect short-term tools and longer-term strategies depending on goals. Kate pays attention to relationships and communication. She supports people dealing with parenting strain, blended family issues, adoption and foster care matters, and caregiver stress.
She also works with challenges like body image, chronic illness, and attachment struggles. In session Kate aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly. She helps set clear, manageable goals and tracks progress along the way.
Practical steps and steady encouragement are central to her approach.
How Kate’s approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on noticing painful thoughts and choosing actions that reflect personal values. Online sessions can introduce small exercises to shift perspective and set value-based goals that clients practice between meetings.Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and empathy. In virtual meetings this looks like open-ended conversation, gentle reflection, and building rapport so people feel heard even through video or text exchanges.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved communication. Those skills can be taught in session and reinforced with short chats or text check-ins between appointments.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they try methods and adjust the plan based on what helps the person make steady progress.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - provide flexibility for different days and needs. Video is useful for full sessions that include teaching skills or role play. Phone work can be an easier option when bandwidth is limited. Shorter check-ins by chat or text make it simpler to follow up on homework or coping steps without scheduling a full visit. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and other busy routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee
- Languages
- English