About Katherine
Katherine Rowe is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions. She writes and talks plainly, offering steady guidance for people who feel overwhelmed or stuck. Katherine aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can name what’s hard and practice new ways of coping.
She uses practical, skills-based methods alongside deeper work on attachments and past hurts.
How Katherine works
Sessions often combine thinking about unhelpful patterns with exercises that build emotional regulation and distress tolerance. For trauma-related concerns she may use approaches designed to help process difficult memories and reduce their hold. Katherine draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small steps toward a life that matters to them.
She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and shift thinking that fuels anxiety and low mood. Attachment-focused work helps people improve relationships and repair old wounds. Her style is warm and direct.
She offers concrete tools you can try between sessions and checks in on what’s working. Conversations are paced to match each person’s comfort level and goals. Katherine practices in Virginia and conducts sessions in English.
Her background includes experience across many stressors such as grief, parenting strain, substance concerns, burnout, and relationship problems. She aims to help people find clearer direction and more workable routines when life feels chaotic.
Katherine lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
How targeted approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, value-driven steps even when strong emotions are present. It’s useful for anxiety, stress, and decisions that feel stalled. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical behavior changes to reduce anxiety and low mood. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused approach that supports processing distressing memories so they have less emotional charge.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Katherine will discuss the options with each person and tailor the plan to goals, history, and how someone prefers to work. That collaborative process helps match tools to the issue rather than forcing a single method.
Online sessions can make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions can be a good lower-bandwidth option or a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing contact, brief coping coaching, and reminders between longer appointments. These formats offer flexibility for scheduling, follow-up, and practicing skills in everyday moments.
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