Katharine Alfs

Katharine Alfs is a licensed therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions. She brings a calm, steady presence and aims to help clients build practical coping skills. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, focused on what will make day-to-day life easier for each person.

With 44 years of experience, she draws on several therapy approaches to match each person's needs. Katharine emphasizes listening first and then working together to try new strategies. She pays attention to cultural background and how life circumstances affect mood and coping.

Sessions are aimed at skill building and clearer thinking. She helps clients notice unhelpful patterns, practice new ways of responding, and build routines that support wellbeing. Practical tools and simple exercises are part of the work.

She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, relationship communication problems, divorce or separation, workplace strain, and women's issues. Katharine uses approaches such as Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Mindfulness to tailor the process.

Katharine is licensed in Florida as an LMHC and holds an LPC credential for Michigan. She works in English and focuses on helping people find steady, manageable ways to cope and move forward.

Approaches that translate well to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. It helps people feel heard and develop their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns and reduce anxiety or low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication to manage strong emotions and relationship stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to identify goals and then tries techniques that fit those goals and the client's preferences. That way the work stays practical and tailored rather than one-size-fits-all.

Confirm the session formats available before booking, since specific online or in-person options are not listed in the biography. In general, remote sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example, they can reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins during a workday, or avoid the need to be on camera when bandwidth is limited. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, homework, and mindfulness practices to work in remote sessions so progress continues between appointments.