About Katie
Katie Drobney is a licensed counselor in Colorado with 16 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting challenges, and depression. She emphasizes a respectful, down-to-earth approach and sees each person as the expert on their own life. Katie aims to support and empower clients as they take steps toward change.
Katie uses practical tools in sessions. She often brings in creative activities like drawing, music, or journaling when clients want them.
Background and approach
These options are offered, not required, and Katie adapts methods to fit what each person prefers. She also draws on transpersonal counseling, which can include a person’s spiritual beliefs if they find that helpful. Her work is straightforward and collaborative.
Sessions focus on real problems and clear steps people can try between meetings. Katie helps clients build coping skills, manage strong emotions, and handle the day-to-day stressors that get in the way of well-being. Katie integrates trauma-informed approaches when trauma or abuse has been part of someone’s history.
She uses therapies known to help with post-traumatic stress, dissociation, panic, and self-harm concerns, tailoring care to each situation. The goal is to reduce distress and increase functioning over time. People who are juggling caregiving, blended family roles, or the transitions of young adulthood often find the practical focus useful.
Katie keeps language plain and sessions paced to what the client needs. She meets people where they are and works with them to set manageable goals.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Katie uses several trauma-focused and skills-based therapies that adapt well to online work. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and coping with stress. It focuses on step-by-step skill building and practice between sessions. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, helps process distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity through structured sets of attention and recall. Trauma-Focused Therapy centers on addressing the impact of traumatic events and building stability and safety before processing difficult memories.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Katie works together with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She adjusts techniques over time and offers creative options like journaling or music when that fits a client’s preferences.
Online therapy makes these approaches easier to access from home or work. Video calls let people use visual cues and share exercises in real time. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, practicing skills between sessions, or when a written format feels more comfortable. These options provide flexibility for different schedules and day-to-day demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Florida
- Languages
- English