Katherine Barlow

Katherine Barlow is a California-licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 12 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and concerns about self-esteem and motivation. Katherine also supports those navigating adoption and foster care issues, aging and caregiver strain, and questions about life purpose.

Her sessions focus on clear, practical conversation. She uses methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and EMDR to address distressing memories and patterns. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure how to begin making changes.

Katherine combines short-term strategies and deeper exploration. She will talk through unhelpful thinking, practice new coping steps, and work on how past experiences affect present choices. Sessions aim to reduce immediate distress while also clarifying longer-term goals.

She brings experience with mood disorders, substance and alcohol concerns, dissociation, domestic violence, and end-of-life caregiving conversations. Katherine pays attention to how prejudice and discrimination shape stress and self-worth. Her approach includes trauma-focused methods when past harm is central.

People meet practical steps in each meeting. Katherine helps set realistic, measurable goals and checks progress over time. To start, prospective clients follow the site's matching and scheduling process to set a first appointment.

How Katherine’s approaches translate to online work

CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. In practice this looks like setting simple experiments between sessions, practicing new coping steps, and using clear homework to track progress. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns.

EMDR helps people process distressing memories that continue to cause current symptoms. Sessions guide attention in specific ways while the person recalls troubling moments, with the aim of reducing intensity and changing how the memory feels. This approach is often used when trauma or abuse is a central issue.

Choosing the best approach is part of the work. Katherine will discuss your goals and preferences and recommend which methods to try first. This is a collaborative process and can change as needs shift over time.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Many people find remote sessions helpful because they can fit therapy into a work break, avoid travel time, or choose shorter check-ins when needed. Licensed professionals can adjust pacing and tools for online meetings, and Katherine will help design sessions that fit daily life and practical constraints.