- Years in practice
- 4
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- West Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- LGBT
About Katherine
Katherine Ward is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in West Virginia who focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, depression, and addictions. She helps people who struggle with motivation, self-esteem, relationship concerns, and parenting stress. Katherine aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can begin making changes at their own pace.
Her approach is flexible and tailored to each person's needs. She uses evidence-informed methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice unhelpful patterns and develop workable strategies.
Background and approach
Katherine also draws on Attachment-Based and Client-Centered ideas to build trust and strengthen connection in how people relate to themselves and others. Sessions emphasize straightforward skills and small steps. Katherine will often work on identifying values, coping tools for anxiety, and plans for reducing addictive behaviors.
She encourages practical experiments between sessions so new habits can be tested in real life. Katherine places importance on treating people with sensitivity and respect. She welcomes conversations about identity, including LGBT issues and gender dysphoria, and attends to concerns such as body image, eating-related issues, and sexual cultures like kink when those topics come up.
With four years of clinical experience, Katherine keeps therapy collaborative. She helps clients set achievable goals and supports them while they try different strategies. The overall aim is clearer direction and greater confidence in handling life changes.
What Katherine works with
Everything Katherine lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Katherine helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Depression
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Katherine lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approach-driven care you can access online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small, meaningful actions even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and getting unstuck from unhelpful habits. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and provides concrete strategies to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change patterns that feed into depression or addictive behaviors. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship experiences shape current ways of relating; it can help people understand patterns in intimacy, trust, and communication.Katherine treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs, explaining options and adjusting the plan as you provide feedback. The aim is to experiment with practical tools until a useful mix of techniques emerges.
Online therapy lets people access sessions in ways that fit their life. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a camera is not wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, ongoing encouragement, or when written reflection helps the work. These options make it easier to attend sessions around work, parenting duties, or other commitments.
Questions people ask about Katherine
What kinds of concerns can be addressed in sessions?
Work can focus on stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, parenting strain, relationship and self-esteem issues, as well as trauma, eating and sleeping problems, and ADHD-related struggles.
How would you describe the therapy style?
The style is collaborative and practical, blending approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered work to build skills and clarify values.
What experience does the therapist have?
Katherine has four years of clinical experience helping people manage emotional challenges and addictive behaviors while working on motivation and relationship concerns.
Where is the therapist licensed and located?
The therapist is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in West Virginia and practices from that state.
Which languages are sessions conducted in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available online?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different preferences and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling sessions based on the therapist's availability.
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