About Katherine
Katherine Rowe greets people with a calm, practical style. She is a licensed clinical social worker with twenty years of experience. She focuses on immediate concerns like stress, anxiety, sleep problems, addiction, and feeling overwhelmed.
Katherine uses clear, steady support to help people take small steps toward feeling better. Her approach centers on everyday tools that make change possible. She draws on therapies that help people notice their thoughts, build coping skills, and process difficult memories.
Background and approach
Sessions often mix skill practice with time to talk about what’s happening now. The aim is to make coping easier in daily life. Katherine’s background includes long experience supporting people after trauma and abuse, and helping those facing grief, career strain, caregiving stress, and relationship trouble.
She also works with people affected by adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, and first responder stress. Her work includes addressing substance use and the challenges that come with co-occurring conditions. Therapy with her tends to be collaborative and goal-focused.
She helps people set small, realistic goals and track progress session to session. Practical exercises and mindful awareness are commonly used to support those goals. Clients can expect sessions offered in English from Virginia.
Katherine accepts international clients and works through a subscription model for ongoing sessions that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on actions that matter. It supports making values-based choices even when emotions are difficult, and it is often used for anxiety, stress, and life changes.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early connections affect current trust and communication. It can be helpful for caregivers, adoption and foster care concerns, and people who want steadier relationships.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing thought and behavior patterns that maintain distress. It uses practical exercises and homework to reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, and sleep difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review goals, preferences, and symptoms and then recommend one or a blend of these methods. This is a collaborative choice and can shift as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions are good for in-depth conversations and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be simpler when less bandwidth is available. Live chat or text can work well for brief check-ins, reminders, or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep continuity between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English