About Katharine
Katharine Childress uses a client-centered approach to guide people through change. She focuses on practical steps and clear goals. Katharine brings 25 years of experience as an LPC in Arizona and speaks English.
She blends cognitive behavioral techniques with solution-focused ideas to help people notice patterns and try new responses. Sessions often break big problems into small, manageable steps so progress is easier to see. That approach is helpful for anxiety, depression, mood shifts, panic, and trouble sleeping.
How Katharine works
Katharine also incorporates mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy tools to strengthen the mind-body connection. Those practices support people coping with trauma, grief, compassion fatigue, and addiction by grounding attention and clarifying values. Motivational interviewing is used when change feels hard or motivation is mixed.
Her background includes work in outpatient settings and crisis situations, and with people coming from adoption, foster care, blended-family arrangements, and caregiver roles. She addresses relationship and communication problems, intimacy and parenting concerns, and the strain that follows divorce or separation. Katharine focuses on real-life skills for anger, impulsivity, guilt and shame, and substance issues.
She helps people explore life purpose, rebuild self-esteem, and manage control issues. The work aims for steady, achievable gains rather than quick fixes.
Katharine lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Katharine works with
The areas below are the ones Katharine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
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Online support options
Therapeutic tools for online work and day-to-day life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by teaching flexible responses instead of avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers hands-on strategies to reduce panic, manage mood swings, and improve sleep. Mindfulness Therapy trains attention and calm through simple exercises that can lower reactivity and support healing from trauma or grief.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide what techniques fit best based on goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying methods, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into daily life. Video can approximate an in-person session, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text is useful for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options allow scheduling around work, caregiving, or other responsibilities while keeping the focus on practical, measurable steps.
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