About Kathleen
Dr. Kathleen Hathaway helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, or stuck in their relationships. She also supports people working on self-esteem, career questions, life purpose, and coping with chronic illness or caregiver strain.
Dr. Hathaway brings a calm presence and practical focus to sessions. She has 25 years of clinical experience and holds the LMFT credential, which stands for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.
Over the years she has worked with individuals and couples around mood concerns, relationship conflict, and the aftermath of trauma.
Background and approach
Her practice gives room to talk through what matters most and to find small changes that make daily life easier. Her approach mixes client-centered listening with structured tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused work. She also draws on the Gottman Method for relationship concerns and Internal Family Systems ideas when people want to understand internal parts and patterns.
Sessions balance compassionate listening with practical strategies you can try between meetings. People who come to her often want help with anxiety, life transitions, feelings of isolation, or problems tied to past family dynamics. She offers guidance for caregivers, first responders, veterans, and those facing chronic pain or illness.
The emphasis is on building coping skills and clearer communication. Sessions are offered from Washington and conducted in English. Dr.
Hathaway combines experienced judgment with straightforward tools so people can make steady progress toward clearer goals.
Approach and care offered through online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and creating a respectful space where clients lead the conversation. It helps people who want to feel heard and to explore their values and goals while deciding what changes to try.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and improve mood. It is well suited for people who want step-by-step techniques to manage worry and stress.
The therapist treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest methods that match those priorities. Together the therapist and client check what works and adjust the plan over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and ongoing text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation, phone can be lower-bandwidth and easier during short breaks, chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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