Katherine "Katie" Royer

Katherine "Katie" Royer is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) in New Mexico with 16 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and the emotional effects of trauma and loss. Katie aims to make the first steps toward change feel doable and steady. She builds sessions around a warm, nonjudgmental atmosphere where clients can talk openly about thoughts and feelings. Katie emphasizes listening first and then working together to find practical steps that fit each person's life. She supports people through low motivation, self-esteem struggles, and major life transitions. Katie uses a mix of approaches tailored to the client's needs. She draws on cognitive-behavioral ideas to address unhelpful thinking patterns and uses mindfulness to help people notice feelings without being overwhelmed. Attachment-based and emotionally focused tools guide conversations about important relationships and patterns that repeat over time. Her work also covers concerns related to grief, parenting stress, sleep problems, bipolar mood challenges, and issues tied to sexual orientation and identity. She pays attention to obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors when they cause distress and gets practical about coping strategies. Katie invites people to take gradual steps toward clearer goals and healthier habits. She emphasizes collaboration so clients leave sessions with concrete ideas to try between meetings. To start, prospective clients use the site process to match and schedule a session.

How therapy approaches shape online work

Katie integrates cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness ideas into therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought patterns that increase distress and practicing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple awareness skills to observe feelings and respond more calmly, which can be useful for anxiety, anger, and stress.

She also uses attachment-based or emotionally-focused ideas to look at relationship patterns and attachment needs. Those approaches help when recurring conflicts or strong emotions show up around close relationships. Katie treats finding the right approach as a team effort; she discusses options with the client and adjusts methods based on goals, preferences, and how someone responds in early sessions.

The biography does not list specific online or in-person formats, so please confirm available session types before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, avoid travel time, or have shorter check-ins when needed. Many people find that meeting remotely helps them maintain consistency and practice new skills between sessions, and Katie will work with each person to make sessions practical and relevant to daily life.