About Kathleen
Kathleen Dodge is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and self-esteem struggles. She creates a calm space where worries can be spoken aloud and where parents and individuals can find practical ways forward. She keeps conversations simple and direct.
Sessions focus on what matters most right now and on small steps that can make daily life easier. Kathleen listens without judgment and helps people locate strengths they already have.
Background and approach
Her experience includes seven years working with people navigating caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, codependency, and relationship communication issues. She also supports those dealing with life changes such as divorce, pregnancy and childbirth, or transitions into young adulthood and midlife. Kathleen uses client-centered methods to follow each person’s lead and to build trust.
She integrates solution-focused ideas to set clear goals and try practical strategies between meetings. This blend aims to be flexible and goal-oriented while staying grounded in each person’s needs. Sessions address common concerns like guilt, shame, isolation, and questions about life purpose.
Kathleen aims to help clients feel more confident, more connected to their values, and better able to handle day-to-day stressors.
How Kathleen’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following what each person brings to the session. It helps people feel heard, clarify what matters to them, and build confidence at their own pace. Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes small, practical steps and clear goals that can be tried between sessions to create forward movement on specific problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Kathleen will ask about your situation, your goals, and how you prefer to work, then suggest ways of combining listening and goal-oriented strategies to match your needs. This collaborative process helps shape sessions that feel useful and realistic.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can fit a tighter schedule or use less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging let people check in or do brief exchanges when time is limited. These formats offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep progress moving between in-person commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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