About Kathee
Kathee Foxan is a licensed clinical social worker with 14 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addictive behaviors. She offers straightforward care that focuses on what’s causing trouble now and practical steps to feel better. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at people who want concrete tools and steady support.
She uses client-centered work to match each session to what a person needs in the moment.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with clearer thinking. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are used to manage strong emotions and build better coping. She also draws on EMDR and mindfulness when trauma or intense distress is part of the picture.
Foxan has spent much of her career at a community mental health center in Iowa and has provided therapy in nursing home settings. That experience includes working with people facing poverty, substance use, legal problems, and loss of independence. She has met clients across a wide age range, from early childhood through later life.
Sessions focus on real-life problems like sleep, parenting strain, anger, relationship struggles, grief, and adjusting to life changes. She helps people break problems into small, manageable steps and practices skills in session that can be used right away. Her approach is collaborative and practical.
Clients set goals and track progress together. When trauma is present, she layers trauma-focused tools with skills work to stabilize symptoms before deeper processing.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and shaping sessions around what matters most to the person. It helps people feel heard and lets the therapist match tools to each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches simple strategies to change unhelpful patterns. That approach is useful for anxiety, mood problems, sleep issues, and worry about daily life.DBT brings skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving relationships. It’s especially helpful when emotions feel overwhelming or when someone wants concrete strategies to stay steady during a crisis. The therapist will work together with each person to decide which mix of approaches fits best, based on current concerns, goals, and what feels workable for the client.
Online therapy makes those approaches flexible. Video calls allow for full conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less data and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, tracking homework, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options let people fit therapy into school, work, caregiving, or other busy schedules while continuing to use CBT, DBT, or client-centered methods.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Iowa, Illinois, North Dakota, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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