Kathryn Gargett
Helping parents build practical skills
- Credentials
- MD, LCPC
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kathryn
Kathryn Gargett is a Maryland-based therapist who focuses on practical help for parents and caregivers dealing with family and parenting challenges. She offers clear guidance for everyday struggles like managing emotions, sleep problems, and parenting stress. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at helping people build useful skills that make daily life easier.
She uses a strengths-based approach to identify what already works and to grow from there. Sessions center on learning routines, improving communication, and finding strategies that fit a family’s schedule and values.
Background and approach
Kathryn brings 14 years of experience and holds an MD and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC. Her work draws on several evidence-based methods, including cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices. She also applies tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy when they match a person’s goals.
The focus is on simple, teachable skills like emotion regulation, problem-solving, and planning for day-to-day tasks. Therapy often covers a wide range of concerns related to family life, such as stress, anxiety, parenting, grief, and coping with life changes. Kathryn also supports issues like ADHD, mood disorders, and communication problems when they affect family functioning.
She aims to help people build routines and resilience that last beyond the therapy room. Clients can expect collaborative sessions that emphasize realistic steps and small experiments between meetings. Kathryn works in English and practices in Maryland, helping people translate insights into lasting habits at home.
Practical therapy approaches for busy families
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values. It supports coping with stress and life transitions by teaching simple actions that match personal priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers hands-on techniques for changing unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, low mood, and sleep problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy provides concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can be useful for parents dealing with overwhelm and relationship stress.The right approach is often found together. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify which methods fit a family's goals, daily routine, and comfort level. Sessions begin with practical goals and then adapt tools from these therapies as needed so families can try strategies between meetings and report back on what worked.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. This range of formats makes it easier to fit brief check-ins or full sessions into a busy week and to use coaching-style support for immediate parenting questions. These options can help families access consistent care without disrupting school, work, or childcare routines.
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.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
Next step
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