About Kathleen
Kathleen Adams is a Colorado Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 32 years of clinical experience. She works with adults who are dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and life transitions. Kathleen draws on humanistic principles to help people find and use their inner strengths.
Her approach blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral strategies and solution-focused techniques. She supports people who want clearer decision-making, better communication, and stronger self-esteem. Kathleen often uses journal-based exercises to help clients reflect and track progress between sessions.
Background and approach
Over three decades she has also written and taught about journal therapy. Her first book, Journal to the Self, was published in 1990 and reached a wide audience. Her later work includes Journal Therapy for Calming Anxiety, released in 2020, which focuses on writing methods to ease anxious thinking.
In sessions she helps people recover from unhealthy relationships, cope with grief, manage mood disorders and navigate career or life-purpose questions. She also addresses caregiver stress, codependency, workplace issues and compassion fatigue. The practice aims to combine insight with concrete steps clients can take.
Kathleen’s style is collaborative and practical. Clients can expect straightforward tools, writing prompts, and behavior-focused homework when appropriate. She frames therapy as a process of discovering personal values and using them to guide change.
Using evidence-based approaches in online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and helping people discover their own solutions. In online sessions this means the therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what she hears, and helps clarify personal values to guide change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, mood problems, and stress because it pairs thinking exercises with action plans clients can practice between sessions.
Kathleen approaches deciding on methods as a collaborative process. She discusses options with each person and adjusts techniques to match goals and preferences. Together they select whether to emphasize journal work, CBT skill-building, mindfulness practices, or short solution-focused steps.
Online sessions offer flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions work well when video is not possible, and live chat or text messaging suit quick check-ins or ongoing written support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, keep momentum between appointments, and use written exercises such as journal prompts as part of the work.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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