About Kathleen
Kathleen Harrison is a Pennsylvania Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress and anxiety, and she also supports those facing depression, relationship strain, and trauma or abuse. Kathleen uses a straightforward, compassionate style and aims to make therapy feel safe and understandable.
She listens first and builds a plan that fits each person. Kathleen does not use a one-size-fits-all method; she adapts methods to match a person’s story and goals.
Background and approach
Sessions are meant to be practical and grounded in everyday life, with steps people can try between meetings. Kathleen often works on self-esteem, motivation, and issues like guilt, shame, and forgiveness. She helps people who feel isolated or who are searching for life purpose and self-love.
Conversations focus on what matters most to the individual and on small changes that add up over time. Her decade of practice includes supporting people after traumatic events and guiding those who want clearer relationships and steadier emotional footing. Kathleen values honesty and compassion in sessions and aims to offer straightforward feedback along with encouragement.
People who choose Kathleen can expect a collaborative relationship. She helps clients set realistic goals and checks progress along the way. The work is steady, with attention to both immediate relief and longer-term growth.
Approaches that guide online care
Evidence-based techniques are used in sessions in plain, practical ways. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and improve mood. This method helps people notice thoughts that keep them stuck and try small changes to see what helps.Another approach centers on building skills for managing strong emotions and improving daily routines. This includes learning concrete tools for calming down, improving sleep and activity levels, and handling triggers from past trauma or abuse. These skills aim to make everyday life feel more manageable.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will ask about needs, goals, and personal preferences and then suggest techniques that fit. Together they monitor progress and adjust methods when something isn’t working well.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you talk face to face, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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