Katherine Gatlin

Katherine Gatlin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, eating concerns, and low self-esteem. She also supports people coping with addictions, grief, intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, and depression. Katherine is comfortable addressing issues related to intellectual disability and other overlapping concerns like autism, adoption and foster care, and substance use. She keeps sessions direct and approachable. Katherine works to create an open space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without fear of judgment. She emphasizes practical strategies and small steps that fit into everyday life. Katherine draws on several structured approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns, Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation, and Motivational Interviewing to build readiness for change. She also uses mindfulness practices to help people manage stress and Solution-Focused techniques to identify immediate, achievable goals. Her style is collaborative and goal-oriented. She listens first, then helps plan clear steps toward the goals people bring. Sessions often focus on skill-building, problem solving, and realistic action that can be practiced between meetings. Katherine describes therapy as a shared process that takes courage. She aims to support and empower each person toward a more fulfilling life, adapting the pace and tools to what fits best for them.

How Katherine's approaches translate to online therapy

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. It helps with anxiety, depression, eating concerns, and stress by breaking problems into manageable steps. DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, teaches practical skills for managing emotions and reducing impulsive behavior; it can be useful for intense emotional reactions and problems with regulation. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative conversation style that helps people find their own reasons to change and build motivation for steps like cutting back on substance use or trying new coping strategies.

Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. Katherine works with each person to find which methods fit their goals and preferences. She will suggest options, try techniques, and adjust based on what helps most. That collaborative process helps keep work focused and practical.

Specific session formats are not listed in the biography, so please confirm current online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example, shorter check-ins during a work break, sessions that avoid travel time, or meetings that let someone speak without needing to be on camera. Licensed professionals, including Katherine, can adapt exercises, homework, and skills practice so they work in virtual settings and everyday routines.