About Katie
Katie Smith is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) practicing in Alabama. She brings five years of experience and a down-to-earth approach to sessions. Katie aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through what matters most to them.
Katie focuses on everyday problems like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. She also supports people navigating ADHD and related challenges. Her work emphasizes practical steps people can use between sessions.
Background and approach
She values a client-centered style that respects each person's values and choices. Katie uses research and evidence-based techniques to shape treatment plans rather than one-size-fits-all approaches. Sessions often include strategies to manage symptoms and build resilience.
Katie draws on personal experience as a parent of a teen with ADHD when supporting people affected by attention differences. That lived perspective informs how she talks about diagnosis, treatment planning, and realistic expectations without promising specific outcomes. Her broader interests include adoption and foster care, attachment issues, blended family concerns, codependency, communication struggles, hoarding, and obsessive-compulsive behaviors.
Katie prefers clear, practical goals and offers tools people can apply the same week they’re learned. People who meet with her typically leave with a clearer plan and small steps to try. She aims to help clients feel seen, supported, and capable of making steady progress toward the changes they want.
Evidence-based techniques delivered online
Katie blends practical, evidence-based approaches into online sessions so people get concrete tools they can use right away. She draws on structured, problem-focused methods that teach coping skills and behavior changes to manage anxiety, depression, and everyday stress. She also uses approaches that help with attention differences and organization, focusing on routines, skill-building, and real-world strategies that can improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Katie collaborates with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals and circumstances. She adapts methods over time and checks in regularly to make sure the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter, more frequent touchpoints for follow-up and skill practice. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent with busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
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- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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