Kathryn "Katie" Carson-Decker
Compassionate, practical therapy for emotional healing
LCSW New York
- Experience
- 15 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Kathryn
Kathryn "Katie" Carson-Decker is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the effects of trauma. She practices in New York and focuses on clear, practical steps that clients can use day to day.
Background and approach
Katie keeps sessions straightforward and centered on what matters to each person. Katie offers a calm, steady style that blends talking through emotions with concrete skills practice.
She uses approaches like the Gottman Method, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to tailor work to each client. Sessions often include breathing or grounding exercises, values clarification, and small behavioral experiments to try between meetings.
She pays close attention to issues around self-esteem, loneliness, and questions about life purpose. Katie helps people name painful feelings such as guilt, shame, or emptiness and then build ways to respond to them.
Communication problems and control issues are discussed in practical terms so people can test new ways of relating in everyday life. Her background includes long-term clinical practice in community and outpatient settings.
As an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - she brings experience with mood disorders and post-traumatic stress while keeping work focused on what clients want to change. Katie also supports people who want to explore forgiveness and deepen self-love.
Katie invites clients who want grounded, compassionate support and concrete tools for change. She helps set small, realistic goals and checks progress regularly.
The pace is collaborative and adapted to each person’s needs and life circumstances.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small actions in line with those values while learning to respond differently to difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. The Gottman Method offers structured tools to improve communication and reduce reactive cycles, which can be helpful when relationship dynamics are part of a person’s concerns.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick techniques that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying methods, checking how they feel in real life, and adjusting plans together as progress is made.
Online therapy delivers these methods through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for hands-on teaching and longer conversations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people share thoughts between meetings. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
15+ years
Licensed in
New York
Languages
English