About Katherine
Katherine Potts writes plainly and directly for people feeling overwhelmed. She focuses on everyday pressures like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship struggles, and the effects of past trauma. Katherine is a licensed clinical social worker - she holds a Master of Social Work and lists both LMSW and LCSW credentials.
She aims to make therapy understandable and practical for families and individuals facing change. Katherine brings ten years of clinical experience to her work.
Background and approach
She guides people through mood instability, substance use, eating concerns, and patterns tied to family of origin. She also helps those dealing with grief, abandonment wounds, and issues that affect intimacy and commitment. In sessions she uses clear, hands-on techniques.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps spot and test unhelpful thoughts. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Motivational Interviewing supports readiness to change.
She believes therapy is a collaborative process. Clients can expect focused tools, practice between sessions, and a steady emphasis on small, achievable steps. Katherine encourages learning skills that clients can use in daily life.
Katherine works with concerns such as career stress, compassion fatigue, isolation, and life purpose. She also addresses family problems, fertility-related stress, and forgiveness or guilt that people carry. Her approach aims to reduce symptoms while building practical coping and clearer relationship patterns.
Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online
Katherine commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help people manage symptoms and build skills. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence to reduce anxiety and depressive patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete skills for regulating emotions, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can be practiced between sessions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals, needs, and preferences, then try methods that fit best. Clients and the therapist can adjust strategies over time based on what helps in daily life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility with several session formats. Video calls let people use visual cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit brief conversations or homework feedback into busy days. These options allow therapy to fit around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping a steady therapeutic relationship with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, New Mexico
- Languages
- English