Katherine "Kate" Tower
Calm, practical therapy for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Katherine
Katherine "Kate" Tower uses practical, evidence-based approaches to help people manage stress and major life changes. She is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - with 15 years of experience. Kate writes plainly and meets people where they are, helping them find tools that fit daily life.
She focuses on common concerns like anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and self-esteem. Parenting and family matters are part of her work, alongside challenges such as addiction, bipolar disorder, grief, and trauma.
Background and approach
Kate also addresses a broad set of related issues including attachment, caregiver stress, and blended family dynamics. Her style blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and client-centered techniques. Sessions include practical skills - such as values-based choices, emotion regulation, and clearer communication - and time to talk through what matters most.
Mindfulness practices are often introduced to reduce reactivity and improve focus. Kate frames therapy as a collaborative process. She helps people set small, achievable goals and tracks progress in ways that make sense for everyday routines.
Parents and adults who need flexible support can expect straightforward guidance and concrete strategies. Based in Tennessee, Kate offers sessions through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Her approach aims to be useful and realistic for busy lives, with attention to both immediate coping and longer-term growth.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and commit to small, meaningful actions. In practice this looks like identifying what matters most and choosing behaviors that align with those values, which can help with depression, stress, and life transitions.Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Therapy often includes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness techniques that translate well to conversations over video or phone.
Katherine also uses client-centered and mindfulness-based techniques to create a supportive, attentive space. These approaches emphasize listening, reflection, and short mindfulness exercises that help reduce reactivity and increase moment-to-moment awareness.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and daily life. That choice can change as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls make it possible to see and hear verbal cues, phone sessions suit people on the go, and live chat or text-based messaging provides quick check-ins or ongoing support. These options let clients use therapy in ways that fit their routines while still working on skills, problem-solving, and coping strategies.
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.
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
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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