About Katie
Katie Smith is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing from North Carolina. She brings five years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship strains. Katie uses clear, practical techniques to help clients take manageable steps toward feeling better.
Katie draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and mindfulness to address day-to-day struggles. She works with people facing grief, parenting worries, workplace stress, mood disorders, and issues tied to identity and intimacy.
How Katie works
She also supports those dealing with family of origin problems, blended family dynamics, and communication or commitment concerns. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Conversations aim to identify what matters most and build small, workable changes.
Sessions move between skill practice, problem-solving, and tightening up unhelpful thinking patterns. Katie also helps people cope with trauma, abuse, and post-traumatic stress through paced, practical strategies. For clients facing overwhelming emotion, she uses tools from dialectical behavior therapy to teach distress-tolerance and emotion regulation skills.
Katie’s training as a counselor informs a respectful, client-led approach. She helps people set realistic goals and tracks progress together. The focus is on building skills that fit everyday life rather than abstract theory.
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What Katie works with
The areas below are the ones Katie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical steps. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress by breaking problems into manageable actions and experiments.DBT, or dialectical behavior therapy, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills. These tools are useful for people who experience intense emotions or recurring relationship conflict.
Mindfulness therapy adds attention and breathing practices to help reduce reactivity and improve moment-to-moment awareness, which complements skills from CBT and DBT.
Katie approaches choosing methods as a collaborative process. She will work with each person to decide which combination of techniques fits their goals, needs, and preferences. Adjustments happen over time so the approach stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video helps keep face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat can fit quick check-ins or times when typing is easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family, and daily life while still practicing the same therapeutic skills.
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