About Kate
Kate Speranza is a licensed mental health counselor with 22 years of experience in New York. She focuses on clear, practical support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and ADHD. Kate speaks plain language and helps clients find workable steps forward rather than overwhelming theory.
Her approach starts with listening. She treats each person as the expert on their own story and helps them notice strengths they already have.
Background and approach
Sessions are a place to try out new ways of managing worry, mood, sleep, and everyday problems. Kate uses techniques drawn from client-centered work and cognitive behavioral approaches to help people change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. She blends mindfulness and solution-focused methods to create short-term goals and build daily routines that feel doable.
Practical tools for managing stress, sleepless nights, anger, or job and parenting strain are part of the work. When trauma or past hurt comes up, she uses trauma-focused strategies to slow down and keep the process manageable. People who prefer a calm, collaborative style tend to do well with Kate.
She offers phone and video sessions plus live chat and text messaging for ongoing support. The aim is steady progress, clearer choices, and more energy for the things that matter.
How Kate’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the person. It helps people feel heard and build their own solutions rather than being told what to do.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It offers clear tools for anxiety, low mood, sleep issues, and ADHD-related daily challenges through skill practice and small experiments.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. It pairs well with CBT when someone wants both skills and practical behavior changes.
Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. Kate will talk with each person about their goals, needs, and preferences and help shape a plan together. That collaborative process helps decide which approaches to emphasize and when to adjust.
Online sessions are offered by phone or video and through live chat or text messages. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a shorter break in a workday, and chat or text are helpful for quick check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around school, work, and family life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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