About Katherine
Katherine (Kate) Schenk is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns. She works with people facing trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, ADHD, and life transitions. Kate uses down-to-earth language and practical tools so conversations are straightforward and useful.
Kate draws on several therapy methods to match each person's needs. She combines acceptance and commitment approaches with cognitive work and person-centered listening.
How Katherine works
Mindfulness and narrative techniques are also part of how she helps people make sense of difficult experiences. Her style is collaborative and goal-minded. Sessions typically involve talking through current problems, identifying what matters most, and practicing steps that bring small changes.
She helps people build skills for managing intense feelings, reducing unhelpful habits, and improving everyday functioning. Kate has four years of counseling experience and holds an LPC credential. Her background includes work in clinical settings where she has supported people with complex needs such as traumatic brain injury, addictions, and mood disorders.
This experience informs a practical approach to problem solving. People who reach out can expect clear explanations of options and simple, doable strategies. Kate encourages realistic goals and regular check-ins on progress.
She aims to create a respectful space where people can name their struggles and try new ways of coping.
Katherine lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Katherine works with
The areas below are the ones Katherine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, committed steps toward them while accepting difficult thoughts or feelings. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and managing persistent stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) concentrates on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors that keep problems going; it helps with anxiety, mood symptoms, and many compulsive patterns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathetic listening and support so people feel heard while they work toward their own goals.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your concerns, discuss how different methods might help, and together you will decide which direction to try first. That choice can change over time based on what feels most helpful and what goals emerge during sessions.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you replicate a face-to-face meeting for deeper conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult, and live chat or text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity when schedules shift.
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A practical next step
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