About Kathleen
Kathleen Sutton is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people facing anxiety, stress, parenting challenges, and life transitions. She uses a calm, strengths-centered style to help people feel heard and begin making practical changes. Her approach aims to build self-esteem and clearer direction when life feels overwhelming.
She brings 11 years of clinical experience and earlier work as a parenting coach and educator. That background informs her way of supporting parents and others who need straightforward tools for daily life.
Background and approach
Kathleen has worked in many settings, including residential treatment, outpatient group practice, correctional facilities, assisted living, and community art therapy programs. Kathleen favors a client-centered, strengths-based relationship as the starting point. She blends mindfulness, trauma-informed talk, and body-based methods to help people notice and shift patterns held in the nervous system.
Expressive art activities are offered as another way to access feelings and process difficult memories, and no art skill is required. She also teaches practical skills such as grounding, emotion regulation, and self-care routines. Psychoeducation is used when helpful to explain why certain patterns repeat and how small changes can support long-term coping.
The tone in sessions is direct, respectful, and encouraging. Kathleen is licensed in Nevada and brings experience across adulthood and aging concerns. People who want down-to-earth guidance for anxiety, grief, burnout, or major life change will find a practical partner in her practice.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that matter, while learning to live with uncomfortable thoughts instead of fighting them. It can help with anxiety, stress, and making decisions during life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. This approach is useful for anxiety, sleep and eating problems, and managing mood shifts.
Kathleen treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with the person about goals, try different methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Together they decide which tools and practices fit the person's priorities and daily routine.
Online therapy here includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video works well for deeper conversations and using visual materials for art activities. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send reflections or get brief support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules while using the same therapeutic tools that are used in person.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Nevada, Washington
- Languages
- English
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