Katherine Pinyan, LCMHC

Katherine Pinyan is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor with 35 years of experience. She has worked in community mental health, outpatient care, inpatient settings, boarding schools, volunteer programs, and primary care. Katherine focuses on practical steps people can use to feel better in daily life.

Her style is warm and interactive. She treats people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion, and avoids stigmatizing labels. Sessions center on the goals the client brings and the changes they want to make.

Katherine has helped people with depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, relationship concerns, LGBTQ issues, and life transitions. She also has long experience supporting adolescents ages 12 to 19 and people coping with health-related issues. Some clients have worked with medication as part of their overall care.

Her clinical approach draws from cognitive-behavioral methods, dialectical behavior ideas, humanistic and interpersonal perspectives. That mix is used to match practical skills with attention to feelings and relationships. Sessions often include talking through problems, learning skills, and trying new ways of communicating.

People who want a counselor who listens, sets clear goals, and suggests doable tools tend to fit well with her practice. Katherine invites prospective clients to consider therapy as a collaborative process and to take the next step toward the changes they want.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to the person's experience. It helps people feel understood and supports self-directed change by following the client's concerns and pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches specific skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, combines skill training in emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness with attention to accepting difficult feelings, which can help with intense emotions and relationship conflicts.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them over time based on what feels useful.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know the available formats. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce time spent traveling, and allow a quicker check-in when needed. It can also make practicing new skills between sessions more consistent. Licensed professionals can help adapt these therapeutic approaches to an online setting and tailor sessions to practical day-to-day needs.