Katie Hunter

Katie Hunter is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 13 years of experience helping people navigate strong emotions. She focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, anger, and the effects of chronic or terminal illness on identity. She often supports caregivers and partners affected by a loved one’s illness or substance use. Her approach centers on practical, compassionate care. She listens first and helps people name what they are feeling. Katie combines client-centered work with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot patterns that keep people stuck. She also draws on trauma-focused methods when painful events need careful attention. Katie works with people facing major life transitions like job loss, relationship change, and the shift in roles that comes with caregiving. She helps clients manage compassion fatigue, chronic pain and illness, and the complicated emotions around divorce and separation. Her background includes supporting those dealing with OCD symptoms, phobias, and post-traumatic stress. Sessions tend to focus on small, achievable goals. She uses solution-focused ideas to plan concrete next steps and DBT skills to help with intense emotions and distress tolerance. Practical tools and steady support are emphasized over long explanations. Her style is warm and straightforward. Katie encourages self-compassion and realistic change. She invites people to bring what feels broken and to work toward rebuilding a life that feels meaningful again.

How therapeutic approaches shape online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the person in front of the therapist. It helps people feel heard and clarifies what they want to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical strategies to change them. DBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, adds skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling relationship stress. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Katie will help clients decide which methods fit best based on their goals and preferences. That decision is collaborative and may shift as needs change during therapy. Confirm current session options before booking to know what formats are available. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, for example by reducing travel time or allowing shorter check-ins on a tight schedule. It can also make it simpler to keep regular appointments through transitions like caregiving duties or treatment schedules. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT, DBT, and client-centered techniques to an online setting to focus on concrete skills, emotional regulation, and problem-solving without promising any specific outcome.