About Katherine
Katherine Steadman is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, addiction struggles, trauma, and depression. Katherine approaches clients with respect for their own knowledge about their lives and looks for strengths to build from.
She emphasizes a practical, down-to-earth style and supports people who are ready to make changes. In sessions she listens first to understand the person and their daily challenges.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to clarify what is most important and to set achievable steps forward. Katherine helps people develop concrete coping tools for panic, impulsivity, anger, and grief. She also addresses relationship strain, communication problems, codependency, and family of origin issues.
Katherine has worked with adults navigating parenting stress, caregiver burden, chronic illness or pain, midlife transitions, and substance use concerns. She gives straightforward guidance around managing guilt, shame, and isolation. Her approach includes coaching elements when clients want practical plans and clear goals.
Therapy with her often involves trying new strategies between sessions and checking what works. Sessions can include short-term problem solving or longer work on patterns that cause repeating problems. Katherine offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs.
People who prefer a collaborative, strengths-based style may find her way of working a good fit. She keeps the focus on small, usable changes that fit day-to-day life.
Practical therapeutic approaches and online care
Katherine uses evidence-based techniques that focus on clear, usable tools. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches breathing, grounding, and behavioral steps to manage anxiety and panic. These tools give quick ways to reduce intense symptoms and regain control.Another frequent focus is problem-solving and behavioral planning for addiction, anger, and impulsivity. This involves breaking problems into manageable steps, testing strategies between sessions, and adjusting what doesn’t work. It helps people build new habits and reduce harmful patterns.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Katherine will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that fit the person’s day-to-day life, and adjust the plan as progress is seen. Clients help choose whether sessions emphasize short-term coping, skill-building, or longer work on repeating patterns.
Online therapy offers flexibility and makes it easier to fit care into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or visual focus is an issue. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These options help people keep therapy consistent without long travel or schedule disruption.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English