Katherine Rowe , LCSW

Katherine Rowe is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She focuses on practical skills and steady support so clients can feel more capable in day-to-day life. Katherine works with concerns around parenting, relationships, addiction, grief, sleep, career strain, and compassion fatigue.

Her approach is straightforward and down-to-earth. Sessions emphasize clear strategies you can use between meetings. She blends skills training with attention to how past relationships shape current reactions. That combination helps people change patterns that cause distress.

Katherine has a long history of helping people navigate major life shifts. She has supported those dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, blended family stress, and caregiver strain. She also assists people coping with domestic violence, divorce, and family-of-origin problems.

Her work includes addressing co-occurring challenges like substance use, bipolar disorder, and depression while also tending to communication problems and attachment issues. She uses evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, and mindfulness tools.

Sessions are offered in English and she sees clients in Virginia, with options for international clients as well. Katherine emphasizes collaboration - she helps people set clear goals and chooses methods that fit their situation and values.

Approaches that translate well to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It teaches practical steps to act in ways that match personal values and can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings interact and uses specific exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, sleep problems, low mood, and coping skills. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, addresses distress tied to traumatic memories by using structured processing techniques to reduce the intensity of those memories. It often helps people with trauma symptoms and difficult past events.

Katherine treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with a client about goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust based on what proves most helpful. This collaborative process helps identify what works in a person’s daily life rather than sticking to one single method.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let conversations feel face-to-face while fitting a busy schedule. Phone sessions or live chat can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Text-based messaging supports quick reflections and ongoing skill practice between meetings. Those options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.