About Katherine
Katherine "Kate" Tower is a licensed clinical social worker who centers therapy on practical, skill-based approaches. She combines acceptance and mindfulness strategies with client-centered conversation to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem concerns. Kate brings 15 years of clinical experience in Tennessee and nearby states.
She focuses on clear goals and simple tools people can use between sessions. Sessions often include mindfulness exercises, values-based work, and emotion regulation skills.
How Katherine works
Kate adapts methods to match each person's pace and needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. Her background includes supporting people facing life changes, trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, bipolar disorder, and chronic health challenges. She also helps with parenting strain, career stress, sleeping problems, and relationship communication difficulties.
Additional interest areas include attachment concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and caregiver stress. Kate favors collaboration in the room. She listens, reflects, and offers step-by-step techniques clients can try.
Over time she helps people notice patterns, test new behavior, and build resilience for hard moments. Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Katherine lists 10 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, centers on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values. It helps people facing anxiety, depression, life transitions, and problems with motivation by teaching how to act despite difficult thoughts. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, reflection, and building a trusting therapeutic relationship so clients can explore what matters most to them. It supports people who need a calm, accepting space to work through stress and self-esteem issues. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can help with intense emotions, relationship difficulties, and coping with crisis moments. Finding the right approach happens together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful. From there she tailors a plan that may draw on ACT, client-centered listening, DBT skills, or mindfulness practices so the work fits the person's life. Online therapy offers practical benefits for this kind of work. Video calls allow direct conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins, and live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter updates or ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to practice skills in real time where life happens.Start online instead of waiting
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