Katherine Bonham
Skilled, practical support for life and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Katherine
Katherine Bonham is a licensed professional clinical counselor who uses practical, skills-based methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and life transitions. She keeps language simple and actions clear so parents and caregivers can follow along. Her approach is down-to-earth and focused on what someone can do between sessions to feel steadier at home and in relationships.
Katherine has a Master of Science in counseling with a graduate certificate in addictions studies, and she has been licensed since 2013 as an LPCC.
Background and approach
She began work in mental health and addictions in 2010 and has practiced across Minnesota over her career. Her background includes research on trauma-informed care and additional training that informs her trauma-focused work. In sessions she teaches practical skills and offers psycho-education so people understand what she’s doing and why.
She emphasizes honesty and a willingness to try new strategies as the basic requirements for progress. Her methods draw from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral tools, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. Katherine also brings experience addressing grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and blended family challenges.
She has worked with a wide range of life stages and health situations, and she aims to tailor strategies to each person’s daily life. Outside of work she stays active, spends time with family and her dog, and enjoys exploring green spaces and trying new recipes.
She values steady, sustainable change and invites people to take small steps that add up over time.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and creating a respectful space. The therapist follows the person’s lead and helps them set goals that matter in their daily life. It helps when someone needs acceptance and practical guidance rather than a strict protocol.Cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT teaches clear tools to change thinking and behavior patterns. It breaks problems into manageable steps and gives homework that can be practiced between sessions to reduce anxiety, mood struggles, and unhelpful habits.
Dialectical behavior therapy or DBT offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It includes techniques for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication that many people can use right away.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Katherine will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting tools as progress is made. The therapist explains why a technique is suggested and how it might help in everyday routines.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options let people fit sessions around family schedules, work, and caregiving duties and make it easier to use skills in real life between contacts with the therapist.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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