Katrina Whyman (Carbee) , LCMHC

Katrina Whyman (Carbee) is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) in Vermont with eight years of experience. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addictions, work through trauma and abuse, and build self-esteem. Katrina aims to make starting therapy feel less intimidating and to offer steady support as people take steps toward change.

Her approach is straightforward and conversational. Sessions focus on what matters right now and on practical steps a person can try between meetings. Katrina listens for patterns that get in the way of daily life and helps clients find small, doable changes they can test out.

She also addresses mood and behavior concerns such as depression, bipolar issues, panic attacks, and obsessive or compulsive tendencies. Eating, sleeping, and body-image difficulties are part of her work, along with substance use and other addictions. Parenting stress and grief are supported in ways that fit each person's situation.

Katrina pays attention to the ways relationships and family dynamics affect someone’s well-being. She helps people talk through communication problems, control issues, and tensions around fertility or family roles. Domestic violence and trauma responses are treated with care and a focus on safety and coping skills.

In sessions she uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide conversations and skills practice. Katrina offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make ongoing work easier to fit into a busy life.

How Katrina Uses Evidence-Based Tools Online

Two common evidence-based approaches she draws on are cognitive strategies and behavioral skill work. Cognitive strategies look at unhelpful thinking patterns and teach ways to reframe or test thoughts that fuel anxiety or low mood. Behavioral skill work focuses on small actions - sleep routines, activity planning, or exposure steps for panic and avoidance - that change how someone feels over time.

Another helpful approach is trauma-informed coping and stabilization. This involves building grounding tools, emotion regulation skills, and short-term plans to handle distressing memories or triggers so daily life can keep moving forward.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Katrina works with each person to find what fits their needs, goals, and comfort level, and she adjusts methods as progress is made. That collaborative process helps make therapy feel more useful and realistic for everyday life.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make attendance easier. Video is useful for longer talk sessions and skill teaching, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text lets people check in or handle brief concerns between appointments. These options are meant to increase flexibility and help clients keep therapy consistent around work, family, or travel.