About Katherine
Katherine Simmons is an Ohio licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with 20 years of experience. She follows a person-centered approach and treats people with dignity and respect. Katherine helps clients address depression, anxiety, addictions, trauma, parenting strain, and related concerns.
She focuses on the whole person and works to connect thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Sessions often include practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and small steps to try new behaviors.
How Katherine works
She uses techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness to help clients notice patterns and build new habits. Katherine also brings motivational interviewing to conversations about change. That style helps people find their own reasons to try something different and build motivation at their own pace.
She integrates psychodynamic ideas to look at recurring patterns that affect relationships and daily life. Her background includes long-term work with people coping with grief, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, chronic pain and illness, and caregiver stress. She also addresses struggles with self-esteem, anger, sleeping, and communication problems.
Multicultural concerns and attachment issues are part of her practice focus. Katherine offers a calm, nonjudgmental presence and aims to help people identify strengths they already have. She helps people set manageable goals and tracks progress together.
Katherine supports clients through life transitions and the day-to-day ways problems show up.
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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.
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Using practical approaches online to support change
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on treating people with respect and listening without judgment. In practice this means the therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects what they say, and helps them notice their own strengths and choices. It is useful for building trust and working through emotional concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral experiments. Sessions often include clear tools and homework to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change patterns that keep problems going. Mindfulness Therapy trains simple attention and breathing practices to lower stress and improve sleep and focus.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan together as progress unfolds. Clients help shape what is tried and when to change course.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people have a face-to-face style session from elsewhere. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging provide flexible ways to share thoughts between sessions or when typing feels easier. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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