About Kathryne
Kathryne Koahou is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, grief, and depression. She works in Utah and brings three years of clinical experience to each conversation. Kathryne aims to create a calm, direct space where people can talk about hard things and find clearer next steps.
Her sessions focus on practical skills and emotional understanding. She uses evidence-informed approaches to help clients manage strong feelings, reduce harmful patterns, and build routines that support recovery.
Background and approach
Kathryne listens for what matters most to each person and adapts her style to fit their needs. Clients can expect straightforward coaching on coping skills, emotion regulation, and changing unhelpful thinking. She offers tools for managing cravings, processing difficult memories, and handling grief in manageable steps.
The work blends skill practice with grounded conversation about life goals and values. Kathryne keeps the process collaborative. She helps people set achievable goals, track progress, and adjust strategies when needed.
Her aim is for clients to leave sessions with one or two concrete things to try between meetings. Her background includes a focus on attachment, codependency, control issues, dissociation, and the emotional aftermath of domestic violence and substance use. Kathryne’s approach supports people who want practical change and deeper emotional repair over time.
Practical approaches for online healing
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It focuses on accepting difficult feelings while committing to actions that move life forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors link together and teaches tools to change unhelpful thinking and routines. That can be useful for anxiety, depression, and managing cravings. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, centers on understanding emotions in relationships and personal patterns, helping people process attachment wounds and deepen emotional awareness.Figuring out the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will review your concerns, try different strategies, and adjust based on what helps. Together you’ll pick methods that match your goals, needs, and comfort with various techniques.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals and include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from wherever you are. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or require less bandwidth. Live chat and texting are useful for brief check-ins, tracking urges, and getting short tools between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English