About Katie
Katie Wood is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and parenting concerns, and challenges like addiction or ADHD. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier. Her approach is warm and collaborative, aimed at steady change rather than quick fixes.
Katie began working in mental health while studying at Western Kentucky University. She completed a Master of Social Work in May 2019 and has six years of experience in clinical settings.
Background and approach
Her background includes work as a Behavioral Health Specialist at a community mental health agency and roles offering individual and group support. She has helped adults with problems that affect day-to-day functioning, such as anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and grief. Katie uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, mindfulness, and client-centered methods to build practical skills. In sessions she focuses on strengths and realistic goals. She pays attention to factors that shape wellbeing, such as physical health, support systems, work or school, and spiritual beliefs.
The tone in sessions is compassionate and down-to-earth, with an emphasis on partnership and steady progress. Katie has experience with individual and group formats and has worked with adults across different life stages. She welcomes people who are ready to do the work needed to make lasting changes.
Her Kentucky practice reflects a straightforward, solution-focused style aimed at improving daily functioning.
Therapeutic approaches and online access
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and strengths. It means the therapist listens closely, mirrors concerns, and helps people find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, panic, and OCD. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) includes skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving relationships, and is useful when emotions feel overwhelming.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Katie will work with each person to try methods that fit their goals and daily life. That may mean combining approaches, adjusting techniques, and checking in regularly to see what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy schedules. Video calls allow a deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, coaching moments, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, parenting, or school routines while keeping treatment focused on measurable goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English