Katharine "Katie" Blum
Practical, respectful therapy for life transitions
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Katharine
Katharine "Katie" Blum is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana with over 11 years of clinical work. Katie identifies as genderqueer and uses they/them pronouns. They focus on creating a warm, nonjudgmental space where people can name what matters and start making changes that fit their lives.
Katie centers sessions on each person’s goals and values. They believe the client knows themselves best and that therapy should follow the client’s priorities.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and grounded, aimed at helping people reclaim energy for daily life and relationships. Their practice includes care for stress, anxiety, grief, depression, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and trauma and abuse. Katie also supports issues around intimacy, eating and body image, self-esteem, career transitions, and compassion fatigue.
Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment concerns, autism and Asperger syndrome, BDSM and kink culture, blended family matters, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and communication problems. Katie draws from a mix of evidence-based tools. They use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns and try new responses.
Mindfulness and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are woven in for emotion regulation and staying present. Sessions are offered in English and conducted online by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Katie practices with an emphasis on respect, clarity, and collaboration while tailoring methods to each person’s needs.
How therapy styles translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. In practice this looks like naming personal priorities, noticing unhelpful thoughts, and choosing actions that align with what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thought and behavior that cause distress and testing new, more helpful ways of responding. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. Mindfulness Therapy encourages learning moment-to-moment attention and gentle curiosity about thoughts and feelings, which can reduce reactivity and improve emotional balance.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past experiences, and what feels useful. From there, methods are blended and adjusted over time so the work fits daily life and real-world needs.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to meet from home, during work breaks, or while juggling caregiving. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, review patterns, and support changes without requiring travel, helping therapy fit into a busy schedule.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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