About Kathryn
Kathryn Gargett is a Maryland-based therapist with 14 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for everyday struggles like anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, ADHD, and stress. Kathryn uses down-to-earth language and a strengths-based outlook to help people build skills that make life easier.
She offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where the conversation stays focused on what matters to the person in front of her. Sessions often center on improving day-to-day routines, managing emotions, and handling relationship and career pressures.
Background and approach
Kathryn emphasizes small, measurable steps that add up over time. Her work pulls from several evidence-informed approaches, including cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices. Kathryn blends these methods to create clear tools for coping, problem solving, and managing impulsivity or executive functioning difficulties.
She aims to help people notice what works and discard what doesn’t. Over 14 years she has supported people dealing with grief, trauma, addiction, mood shifts, and life transitions. She pays attention to how identity and social context shape stress and resilience.
The goal is practical change: better sleep, calmer reactions, clearer priorities, and more satisfying connections. Kathryn holds an MD and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC. She offers sessions in English and works with adults in Maryland.
If someone wants straightforward guidance to manage symptoms and regain focus, Kathryn draws on concrete techniques and collaborative planning to get there.
How Kathryn Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It’s useful for anxiety, low motivation, and life transitions because it focuses on what matters most rather than fighting every uncomfortable thought. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change patterns that cause distress. CBT often helps with mood, sleep, and ADHD-related routines and organization. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills. It can be helpful when emotions feel overwhelming or impulsive behaviors cause problems.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Kathryn discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods to fit their needs. This collaborative process means techniques are chosen for usefulness, not as fixed labels, and are reviewed as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for full conversations and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and messaging allow for quick problem-solving, skill practice between sessions, and flexible communication when schedules are tight. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while focusing on tools that help with planning, attention, and emotional control.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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