About Katie
Katie Wood is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with six years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and ADHD. She takes a straightforward, warm approach and focuses on practical steps clients can use between sessions. Katie emphasizes building trust so people feel safe to talk about sensitive issues like trauma, intimacy, body image, or parenting struggles.
She began in mental health while finishing an undergraduate degree at Western Kentucky University.
Background and approach
While working as a Behavioral Health Specialist at a community mental health agency, she completed a Master of Social Work and moved into clinical practice in 2019. That hands-on background informed her work with adults across many life stages. In sessions she uses conversations that center the person’s experience and goals.
Katie draws on methods from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative approaches. She mixes techniques so people learn skills and try small changes that fit their daily life. Katie pays attention to the many parts of life that affect well-being.
She asks about physical health, support networks, work or school demands, and spiritual or faith concerns when relevant. That helps shape a plan that feels realistic and focused. Clients often work on coping skills for panic or obsessive thoughts, managing anger, improving sleep and eating patterns, or navigating life transitions and career decisions.
Katie also supports people facing relationship and intimacy issues, codependency, and recovery from trauma or loss.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person’s lead. It helps people clarify what matters most to them and build motivation for change. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks down unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches practical techniques to manage anxiety, panic, obsessions, and mood. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, blends skill work around emotion regulation and distress tolerance with attention to relationships and boundaries.Katie collaborates with each person to find the best mix of methods. She will talk about goals, try an approach, and adjust over time so the work matches needs and preferences. The process is a partnership rather than a fixed prescription.
Online sessions offer several practical benefits. Video calls let people see facial cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions can be helpful when internet bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for ongoing support, quick coaching, or when someone prefers written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while still using the same therapeutic approaches.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- 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
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