Katherine Gatlin, LPC

Katherine Gatlin is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin with five years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship or intimacy concerns, and struggles with eating or addiction. Katherine aims to make the first step feel manageable and respectful.

She keeps sessions open and nonjudgmental so clients can talk about difficult thoughts and feelings. Katherine focuses on practical tools to manage anxiety and low mood. She also offers support for people coping with trauma and abuse, and for those working through parenting and family stress.

Her approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, techniques from Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness practices to help people change unhelpful thinking and build everyday coping skills. She may use motivational interviewing to strengthen a person’s own reasons for change and solution-focused work to set clear short-term goals.

Katherine uses straightforward language and steps that people can try between sessions. She works with issues related to adoption and foster care, autism and Asperger syndrome, body image, codependency, and substance concerns when they affect daily life. She also addresses problems like impulsivity, guilt and shame, and co-occurring conditions.

Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Katherine describes therapy as a collaborative process and helps each person find strategies that fit their situation and pace.

Therapeutic approaches that translate to online work

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people notice patterns of thinking that make problems worse and practice new ways of thinking and behaving. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and eating concerns and includes concrete homework and skill practice.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy focuses on building emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills. It can help people who feel easily overwhelmed, struggle with impulsivity, or have intense relationships by teaching step-by-step coping strategies.

Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be a collaborative decision. The therapist will discuss your goals, try methods that match your needs, and adjust techniques as you progress so the plan fits your life and pace.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video lets people practice skills face to face, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders or brief check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while keeping regular contact with a licensed professional.