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Katherine Malcolm

Katherine Malcolm, LMHC

Florida

LMHC in Florida - Family and relationship patterns

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  • Attachment-based work
  • Cognitive behavioral tools
  • Parenting and adoption

About Katherine

Katherine Malcolm is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 11 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing depression, anxiety, stress, ADHD, grief, and relationship concerns. She also addresses parenting questions and family of origin issues that continue to affect day-to-day life.

Clients meet a clinician who focuses on practical, conversational therapy. Sessions aim to make sense of patterns that began in childhood and to reduce symptoms that interfere with work, sleep, and relationships. Katherine helps people name repeated roles, expectations, and behaviors that keep coming up in their lives.

Her background includes work with adoption and foster care matters, blended family challenges, attachment questions, and issues related to abandonment. She also supports people dealing with body image, postpartum and midlife transitions, career shifts, and grief. Those topics often connect back to early family experiences.

Her style draws from attachment-based ideas, client-centered techniques, and cognitive behavioral strategies. That means conversations focus on understanding relationships, clarifying personal goals, and testing practical changes between sessions. Mindfulness and emotionally focused tools are also used to help manage strong feelings and improve communication.

Katherine asks straightforward questions and offers chosen exercises to try between meetings. She works collaboratively to set short-term goals and revise them as life changes. To begin, clients select the online therapy options button, complete a brief matching questionnaire, and schedule an initial session.

How Katherine’s approaches translate to online work

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current ties. In online sessions this looks like talking through past relationship patterns and noticing how they play out now, which can help with trust and closeness issues. Client-Centered Therapy centers the client’s perspective and uses reflective conversation to clarify values and goals; online sessions follow the client’s lead and slow down around what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) identifies unhelpful thoughts and tests small behavioral experiments; remotely, those experiments can be planned and reviewed between meetings to track progress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Katherine collaborates with each person to decide which methods to try based on current needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions may mix techniques so the plan can be adjusted as learning and feedback happen.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also makes it possible to practice communication and behavioral experiments in real life between sessions and then bring observations back to therapy for discussion.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Also works with

Relationship issuesFamily conflictsGriefSleeping disordersAnger managementCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCoping with life changesCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAttachment issuesAutism and Asperger SyndromeBlended family issuesBody imageCancerCo-morbidityCodependencyCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDisruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)Divorce and separationDomestic violenceEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsForgivenessGuilt and shameHoardingImmigration issuesImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMidlife crisisMood disordersPanic disorder and panic attacksPersonality disordersPhobiasPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSelf-loveSexual assault and abuseSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Mindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

11+ years

Listed in

Florida

Languages

English

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she address related to family history?

Katherine helps people understand how roles and expectations from childhood continue to shape adult behavior and relationships. She works with issues such as attachment, abandonment, adoption and foster care experiences, and blended family challenges.

What is her therapeutic style like?

She uses a conversational, practical approach drawing on attachment-based therapy, client-centered methods, and cognitive behavioral techniques. Sessions focus on understanding relationship patterns and trying concrete changes between meetings.

How much experience does she have?

She has 11 years of clinical experience working with adults on mood, anxiety, relationship, and family-of-origin concerns.

What credential and location should I know?

She is a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor (FL LMHC) and practices from Florida.

Which languages are supported in sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

Does she work with international clients?

International clients are not currently accepted.

How are session costs handled?

Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin the process?

Start by selecting the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule your first session.

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