About Katelyn
Katelyn Peers is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York with 15 years of clinical experience. She welcomes people who are facing ongoing stress, sudden life changes, or complicated emotional issues and aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable. Katelyn offers a warm, personal style and focuses on building a trusting connection before moving into problem-solving.
Katelyn has worked across a range of settings over her career, including roles supporting people connected to foster care and those navigating complex family trauma.
How Katelyn works
That background gave her experience with practical problem-solving and with safety planning when needed. She pairs real-world tools with space to tell your story. Her approach blends cognitive behavioral techniques with narrative and solution-focused ideas.
That means she helps people identify unhelpful thinking, reframe difficult experiences, and set short-term, achievable goals. She also integrates trauma-focused ideas when past events continue to affect daily life. Sessions are conversational and collaborative.
Katelyn listens first, then helps set clear steps you can try between meetings. She emphasizes respect, dignity, and working at a pace that feels right for each person. People who reach out often want help with anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, parenting challenges, or career stress.
She also supports concerns such as self-esteem, forgiveness, guilt, and building self-love. Katelyn explains options clearly so clients can choose what fits best for their goals.
Katelyn lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Katelyn works with
The areas below are the ones Katelyn selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How Katelyn’s Approaches Work Online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that maintain problems and testing small experiments to change them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress that shows up in daily routines.Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from difficult stories they tell about their lives. It invites re-authoring those stories so events feel less defining and gives room for new possibilities.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Katelyn will talk with clients about goals, history, and what feels most comfortable. Together they choose techniques and adjust them over time so sessions match the person’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility that can help people keep therapy consistent. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when audio is enough or bandwidth is low. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when scheduling a longer appointment is difficult.
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