About Kathleen
Kathleen Connolly is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with 20 years of experience. She focuses on stress and anxiety and helps people facing life transitions, career questions, and relationship concerns. Kathleen works with individuals who are coping with depression, low self-esteem, grief, trauma, and shifts in caregiving roles.
She practices in Massachusetts and conducts sessions in English. Kathleen centers the therapeutic relationship as the foundation of her work.
Background and approach
She views therapy as a personal journey where a person learns more about their strengths and limits. In sessions she helps people name what matters, notice patterns, and try practical steps toward change. Her style is collaborative and respectful of each person’s pace.
She draws on several practical approaches including client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and narrative work. Those methods help with anxiety, coping skills, and rethinking unhelpful stories people tell about themselves. Kathleen uses techniques that link thoughts, feelings, and actions to everyday problems.
Her background includes work across settings with adults spanning a wide age range. She has helped people with caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image and attachment questions, and issues related to identity and sexuality. She also addresses sleep and eating concerns and the overlap of multiple difficulties.
Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Kathleen asks new clients to follow the site process to start therapy, complete a brief questionnaire, and schedule sessions. She does not take international clients.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. It helps people feel heard, clarify values, and build confidence before making changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and uses small experiments and practical tools to ease anxiety and improve mood. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple ways to notice the present moment and reduce repetitive worry that often shows up with stress and insomnia.Deciding which approach fits best is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan based on what helps most in daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls let people speak face to face for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging can fit around busy schedules and allow brief, focused support between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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