About Katherine
Katherine Potts is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship struggles. She writes plainly and listens closely to understand what feels hardest right now. Katherine aims to make therapy practical and useful from the first session.
She draws on ten years of clinical experience and a Master of Social Work degree. Katherine uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
How Katherine works
She incorporates Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Motivational Interviewing supports people who want to change habits like substance use or other addictive patterns. Katherine often works with people dealing with family problems, codependency, and the effects of trauma and abuse.
She also addresses issues such as body image, intimacy concerns, and life transitions like divorce or infertility struggles. Sessions focus on real-life tools to manage symptoms and improve daily functioning. Therapy combines practical skills practice with focused conversations about patterns and history.
Katherine helps clients build coping strategies, repair relationships, and set manageable goals. She encourages learning DBT skills when they fit a person's needs. Sessions are available remotely through a mix of video, phone, chat, and messaging options.
Katherine accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English. She aims to help each person find steady progress, one step at a time.
Katherine lists 5 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMSW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Approaches that fit your life and schedule
Katherine commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; this is useful for anxiety, depression, and problem habits. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness for people who struggle with intense emotions or relationship patterns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Katherine will talk with each person about goals, history, and what techniques feel most useful. Together she tailors the methods to match individual needs and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face work and skills practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat works for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work days, caregiving schedules, or travel while keeping consistent contact with a licensed professional.
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