Katherine Potts , LMSW, LCSW

Katherine Potts, LMSW, LCSW helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, or changes in life direction. She writes and talks plainly so clients can quickly understand options and next steps. Her style suits people who want practical tools and steady support while they work through hard moments.

Katherine earned a Master of Social Work from Wayne State University and has practiced for about 10 years. She has spent a lot of time helping people with mood struggles, substance use concerns, and patterns that hurt relationships. Her background includes work with people who identify as adult children of alcoholics and those who have lived with trauma and loss.

In sessions she teaches skills drawn from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior therapies. She also uses motivational interviewing to help people find reasons to make difficult changes. Conversations often focus on changing unhelpful thoughts, building daily coping skills, and improving emotional regulation.

People seeking help for body image, eating concerns, codependency, intimacy or fertility stress will find her experienced with those topics. She also supports those dealing with family of origin issues, forgiveness, guilt, and isolation. Katherine aims to make therapy feel practical and relevant to everyday life.

Katherine meets people where they are and works collaboratively to set goals. She encourages small, measurable steps and practices people can use between sessions. Her approach blends skill-building with time to talk through painful experiences.

Approach-driven online therapy for real-life change

CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on how thoughts affect feelings and behavior and helps people shift unhelpful thinking patterns to reduce anxiety, depression, and negative self-talk. DBT, or dialectical behavior therapy, teaches practical emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills useful for mood instability, intense emotions, and relationship conflict. Motivational interviewing helps people find internal motivation to change behaviors like substance use or unhealthy patterns by exploring personal values and ambivalence.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and adapt methods together. That collaborative process means strategies can be adjusted over time so therapy stays relevant to each person's needs.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit different schedules. Video works well for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep momentum while balancing work, family, and daily life.