Dr. Katina Hill-Thompson, LCSW

Dr. Katina Hill-Thompson focuses on people who are feeling overwhelmed by relationships, mood shifts, or painful past events. She aims to create a respectful, empathetic space where someone can talk through what feels most urgent. Dr. Hill-Thompson is a licensed clinical social worker with 22 years of experience and works from Florida.

She helps with mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms, along with anxiety and stress. Relationship and intimacy problems are a common focus, as are family conflicts, parenting strain, and communication struggles. She also supports those coping with guilt, shame, abandonment, and forgiveness work.

Her approach blends practical, skills-based work with attention to attachment and life meaning. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name values and build flexible ways to act on them.

Dr. Hill-Thompson also draws on client-centered principles and elements of dialectical behavior therapy to help people manage strong emotions and improve how they relate to others. Sessions are shaped to each person's goals and life context, with straightforward tools to practice between meetings.

She welcomes conversations about coping with life changes, parenting pressures, compassion fatigue, and concerns common to young adults and women. Her style is direct but warm, aiming to make therapy useful from the first few sessions.

Therapeutic approaches suited to online sessions

Dr. Hill-Thompson uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thinking patterns that keep problems going and to try different actions that produce different results. CBT often focuses on practical exercises and short experiments between sessions, which work well in online formats.

She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify what matters to them and take committed steps toward those values even when emotions are strong. ACT supports working through avoidance and building a life guided by personal priorities.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and life circumstances, and then recommend a mix of methods that fit. That collaborative process helps tailor work to what a person needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good alternative when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging options support shorter check-ins or ongoing between-session communication. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep consistent progress over time.