About Katie
Katie Ball is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. She works with adults facing big life changes and offers practical coaching to regain direction. Her approach is straightforward and focused on real problems.
With eight years of experience, Katie draws on techniques that aim to build confidence and clearer communication. She helps people sort through caregiver strain, attachment worries, and issues that come up around aging.
Background and approach
Sessions often center on small, doable steps that fit into daily life. Clients can expect help with relationship challenges like communication problems, infidelity, and commitment concerns, while also addressing family of origin patterns and codependency. Katie also supports people dealing with isolation, forgiveness work, and finding life purpose in midlife.
She keeps sessions practical - identifying patterns, testing new ways of responding, and strengthening coping skills. Work may include role-playing conversations, setting boundaries, or planning gradual changes to reduce overwhelm. Progress is tracked through clear, measurable goals.
Katie practices in Montana and conducts sessions using video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She aims to make therapy accessible and aligned with each person’s needs.
Evidence-Based Techniques for Online Support
Katie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, practical change. One approach emphasizes building coping skills for anxiety and depression through step-by-step practice. This helps people reduce overwhelm and try new ways of responding to stress. Another common thread in her work centers on improving communication and setting healthy boundaries. That approach uses straightforward exercises like role-play and rehearsal to prepare for real conversations and improve relationship interactions. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review goals, try different methods, and adjust based on what brings progress. Together they pick strategies that match the person’s needs and preferences rather than relying on a single technique. Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, while phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, coaching checkpoints, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or travel without losing momentum.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California, Montana
- Languages
- English