Katharine St. Aubin

Katharine St. Aubin is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) practicing in Michigan with over 10 years of professional experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, self-esteem, motivation, and coping with life changes. She also works with concerns such as addiction, relationship strain, parenting challenges, career questions, ADHD, depression, bipolar disorder, and life purpose.

Katharine frames clients as experts in their own stories and looks for strengths they already have. In sessions she listens and helps people name what matters to them. That practical focus makes conversations feel grounded rather than abstract. Clients can expect a straightforward, conversational approach rather than a lot of jargon.

She uses methods drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Mindfulness Therapy. Those tools are used to help manage distressing thoughts, build coping skills, and practice small behavior changes that can make daily life easier.

Katharine also attends to related issues such as caregiver stress, aging and geriatric concerns, hospice and end-of-life support, postpartum depression, seasonal affective disorder, and isolation or loneliness. She offers practical help for communication problems and substance use struggles alongside emotional care.

Her work often looks like clarifying short-term goals, testing small changes between sessions, and checking what helps most. For people wrestling with life purpose or a major transition, she focuses on what can be tried next rather than promising a single answer.

How Katharine uses ACT, CBT and client-centered work online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that reflect what matters to them. It can be useful for people wrestling with life purpose, anxiety, or motivation issues.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve functioning. It’s practical for anxiety, depression, and managing mood shifts.

Client-Centered Therapy centers the client's experience, using reflective listening and questions to clarify goals and strengths. This approach supports people who need clear, respectful conversation about next steps.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Katharine will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That can mean combining techniques or shifting tactics as progress is observed.

Confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not listed in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins around a break, or avoiding a commute on busy days. These practical benefits help therapy be one part of day-to-day routines rather than an extra burden.