Katy Schoen, LPC

Katy Schoen is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in West Virginia. She has four years of clinical experience and works with people facing worry, low mood, relationship strain, and trauma. Katy takes a calm, compassionate approach and uses everyday language in sessions. Katy focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship and intimacy-related concerns. She also helps people coping with career changes, compassion fatigue, and the challenges that can follow military service. Her practice includes attention to attachment and abandonment issues, body image, chronic pain and illness, codependency, and isolation. Her style is relaxed and down-to-earth. She believes clients know themselves best and brings a collaborative attitude to sessions. Humor is used when appropriate and sessions aim to identify personal strengths that people can use to move forward. Katy draws on a range of approaches, including cognitive behavioral methods, acceptance and commitment techniques, emotionally focused work, client-centered listening, and attachment-based ideas. She focuses on practical tools that clients can use between sessions to reach their goals. She provides a respectful space for Jewish clients and acknowledges cultural concerns related to rising antisemitism. Katy does not offer Christian-based counseling, couples therapy, or services for anyone under 18. Sessions are conducted in English and organized so people can talk through what they are facing and make decisions that fit their lives.

How her approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then take actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with worry, low mood, and coping skills. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on emotions and relationship patterns to improve connection and regulation in close relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Katy will collaborate with each person to figure out which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts techniques so people can try them and report back on what works.

Confirm the current session options before booking since the biography does not list specific online formats. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It also lets people practice skills in their everyday routines and bring real situations into session for discussion.