About Katina
Dr. Katina Hill-Thompson helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by relationships, mood challenges, or family stress. She is a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, with more than two decades of practice.
Her style is direct and compassionate, and she works to make each session practical and understandable. She focuses on common struggles like depression, anxiety, anger, and intimacy-related concerns. She also supports people facing parenting stress, compassion fatigue, bipolar spectrum mood issues, and major life changes.
How Katina works
Communication problems, attachment wounds, and family-of-origin concerns are frequent topics she addresses. Her approach combines several therapy methods to meet each person where they are. She uses techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns.
She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at relationship dynamics and how early bonds affect current behavior. Sessions are led in a collaborative, client-centered way. That means the person sets goals and Dr.
Hill-Thompson helps craft steps to reach them. She also uses tools from acceptance and commitment therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when people need skills for emotional regulation and valued action. Dr.
Hill-Thompson has 22 years of experience and practices in Florida. She speaks English and accepts international clients for online work. New people begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time to meet.
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What Katina works with
The areas below are the ones Katina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online relationship and mood work
Dr. Hill-Thompson often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test them against real-life evidence to change behavior. CBT is useful for worries, low mood, and problem-solving day-to-day challenges.She also draws on attachment-based therapy to explore how early relationships shape current patterns in intimacy and communication. This approach helps people notice interaction cycles and try new ways of connecting or setting boundaries.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She partners with each person to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. Together they track progress and adjust techniques if something does not fit.
Online therapy offers a range of practical formats. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing coaching, quick skill reminders, or check-ins between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while using the same clinical approaches as in-person care.
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A practical next step
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