About Kathleen
Kathleen Eager-Ariz is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress and anxiety and find steadier footing in daily life. She speaks plainly and focuses on small, practical steps that make an immediate difference. Parents and busy people will find direct, calm support for overwhelm and changing life demands.
She notices patterns that keep people stuck and helps them test new habits. Conversations cover emotions, behavior, and life choices.
Background and approach
Kathleen aims to make progress clear and measurable so clients know when things are shifting. Her background includes three years of counseling practice in Texas as an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor. She has worked with people facing depression, trauma, emotional dysregulation, relationship problems, parenting stress, and adjustment to life transitions.
Kathleen emphasizes resilience and growth while recognizing how past hurts can limit forward movement. Her style is collaborative and person-centered. She draws on practical tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and skills-based work to teach coping strategies.
Sessions look at thoughts, emotions, and actions and practice manageable changes between meetings. Conversations may also include elements that attend to emotional bonds and values-based choices. The aim is to help people reconnect to what matters and build routines that support wellbeing.
Kathleen meets clients where they are and adjusts pacing to match each person's needs.
Clinical approaches and remote care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions in line with those values. It often helps with anxiety, stress, and feeling stuck by teaching simple exercises to notice thoughts without getting controlled by them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers step-by-step strategies to test unhelpful thoughts and to try new behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve sleep and mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kathleen will talk with each person to learn their goals, preferences, and daily rhythms and then suggest techniques that fit. This is a collaborative process that can change over time as needs evolve.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let therapists and clients meet face to face when a fuller conversation is helpful. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or when a brief check-in fits a lunch break. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter updates, skill practice between sessions, and more frequent contact when desired. These options allow people to keep momentum while juggling work, parenting, or other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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