About Katie
Katie Light is a clinician who brings seven years of experience in social work and addiction services to her sessions. She holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential and a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker credential, and she practices from Kansas. Katie focuses on building on each person’s strengths and creating practical steps forward.
She has worked in hospitals, community mental health, outpatient addiction programs, domestic violence advocacy, and group home settings.
Background and approach
Those roles gave her experience with many mental health and substance use concerns. That background informs how she tailors care to individual needs. Katie helps people manage anxiety, depression, bipolar mood shifts, and trauma-related symptoms.
She also supports people with relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep problems, parenting stress, grief, and career strain. Addictions, ADHD, and issues around codependency, control, and isolation are among other areas she addresses. In sessions she mixes practical tools and skills with processing work.
Katie commonly uses acceptance and commitment methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior skills, mindfulness practices, and EMDR when appropriate. She aims for clear goals and simple practices that fit daily life. People who want direct, skills-based work alongside trauma-informed processing tend to fit her style.
Katie emphasizes small, achievable changes and steady progress. She invites clients to set the pace and shape the plan together.
How Katie’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, depression, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with concrete exercises and homework, which suits problems like panic, mood issues, and sleep concerns. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured method for processing traumatic memories and reducing their emotional intensity, and it can be used when trauma is a central issue.Finding the best approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences, then try techniques that fit. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most, and clients are invited to shape the pace and focus of work.
Online sessions use video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for in-depth talk and skills practice. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, note sharing, or ongoing support between sessions. These options help people fit care into busy schedules and keep continuity when in-person meetings aren’t practical.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, Missouri
- Languages
- English