Kate Conochan, LISW, LCSW

Kate Conochan is a licensed social worker who brings 15 years of experience to her therapeutic work. She holds LISW and LCSW credentials and practices from Louisiana while also holding a license in Ohio. Kate focuses on practical steps clients can use to manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns.

She favors a client-centered approach that starts with the person's own goals. Sessions are collaborative and paced to match each person's timeline. Kate emphasizes building a straightforward, honest working relationship so people feel comfortable talking about difficult topics.

Her experience includes supporting adults facing addiction, trauma, life changes, and mood struggles. She has also worked with youth involved in foster care and the juvenile justice system earlier in her career. That background informs how she frames treatment and offers concrete coping strategies.

Kate integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, emotionally-focused work, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. In practice this means identifying unhelpful thoughts, clarifying personal values, practicing emotional skills, and using mindful awareness to reduce distress.

Sessions typically combine short-term skill-building with longer-term work on patterns that keep problems recurring. Kate aims to make the first steps easy to take and to support continued progress over time. Her style is direct, compassionate, and focused on usable tools.

Clients can expect practical exercises, reflective conversation, and step-by-step plans to try between sessions.

How CBT and ACT Shape Online Therapy

Kate commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy alongside client-centered and mindfulness practices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting and shifting unhelpful thought patterns and trying new behaviors to reduce distress. It can help with anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy emphasizes clarifying values and taking committed action even when difficult feelings are present, which can help with avoidance, grief, and motivation.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to identify which strategies fit a person's needs, goals, and preferences, and adjusts methods over time based on what helps. Sessions blend teaching skills, practicing new ways of responding, and setting small between-session tasks to test changes.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter exchanges, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while maintaining a consistent course of treatment.