Katy Schoen

Katy Schoen is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in West Virginia. She brings four years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, and coping with life changes. Her approach is relaxed and compassionate, and she aims to help each person use their strengths to move forward.

Katy believes clients know themselves best and builds on those strengths in sessions. She offers a straightforward style, using a sense of humor when appropriate to ease difficult conversations. She does not provide Christian-based counseling, offer couples therapy, or work with anyone under 18.

In practice she helps people facing grief, career transitions, intimacy-related issues, compassion fatigue, and problems with self-esteem and motivation. She also addresses issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns, body image, chronic illness or pain, codependency, and communication problems. Veterans and people dealing with mood disorders are within her stated focus areas.

Katy uses a mix of evidence-informed methods to help people gain clarity and skills. Sessions typically involve talking through situations, identifying practical steps, and practicing new ways to respond to thoughts and emotions. She aims to help clients make decisions that match their values and goals.

Sessions are conducted in English and do not include international clients. The practice emphasizes respect for cultural identity and notes providing a welcoming space for Jewish clients who are navigating cultural and safety concerns.

How specific approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take actions aligned with those values, using simple exercises to notice thoughts without letting them drive behavior. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on emotions and patterns in close relationships to help people understand and change how they respond to each other.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Katy will work collaboratively to figure out which methods fit a person's needs, goals, and preferences. She often combines elements from these approaches to match the practical steps a client wants to take.

The original profile does not specify which online session formats are offered, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example, shorter check-ins during a workday can be easier to schedule, and some formats use less bandwidth when video is difficult. Licensed professionals can use these methods to teach skills, practice new responses, and track progress over time without promising a particular outcome.