About Katherine
Katherine Maestre-Caro is a licensed counselor with 25 years of clinical experience. She works with adults who are facing relationship strain, trauma, grief, depression, anxiety, and intimacy concerns. Katherine speaks English and Spanish and practices in Virginia as an LCPC and LPC.
She approaches therapy believing each person knows their story best. Sessions focus on building on existing strengths and making small, practical changes. Conversations are direct and compassionate, aimed at helping people feel more in control and understood.
Background and approach
Katherine has spent much of her career helping people process loss and trauma. She also helps with sleep problems, low self-esteem, panic attacks, and questions about sexual assault or abuse. Other areas she addresses include communication problems, attachment concerns, fertility and immigration issues, infidelity, jealousy, and patterns linked to personality or post-traumatic stress.
Her style favors collaboration. She works with clients to set clear goals and choose steps that fit their lives. Progress is tracked in ways that make sense for each person, whether through conversations, experiments, or skills practice between sessions.
Katherine welcomes people across different backgrounds and identities, including those who identify as LGBT. She aims to create a nonjudgmental space where adults can explore sensitive topics and build toward meaningful change. To begin, prospective clients follow the site process to match with her and schedule sessions based on availability.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Evidence-based methods are used in ways that are easy to understand and apply. For example, trauma-focused work often helps people process upsetting memories and learn skills to reduce their emotional intensity. This can help with post-traumatic stress, panic attacks, and symptoms after sexual assault or abuse.Another common approach emphasizes improving communication and attachment in relationships. That work teaches practical ways to share needs, manage conflict, and rebuild trust, which can help with intimacy issues, jealousy, and infidelity concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Katherine collaborates with each person to identify which methods match their goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts the plan over time so the work stays useful and relevant.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current online and in-person options before booking. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. Licensed professionals can help choose the format that best fits scheduling, comfort with video, and the pacing a client prefers.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia
- Languages
- English, Spanish