About Kathleen
Kathleen "Kathy" Harvey is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works with individuals facing addiction, relationship strain, grief, and major life changes. Kathy focuses on practical skills that people can use right away.
Her style is straightforward and warm. Sessions aim to boost communication, reduce social anxiety, and build self-esteem. She helps clients identify unhelpful patterns and try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Kathy uses a mix of approaches to fit each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice thoughts that fuel anxiety. Client-centered work keeps the client's goals and values at the forefront.
She also draws on Motivational Interviewing to support change when someone feels stuck. For people affected by trauma, Trauma-Focused Therapy is used to address painful memories and reactions. These approaches are selected together with the client.
Kathy has particular experience with caregiver stress, codependency, process and substance addictions, and issues that affect women. She offers practical steps for improving sleep, managing anger, and finding greater purpose. Her practice is based in New Jersey and sessions are held in English.
How Kathy’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead. The therapist offers empathy and reflection so clients can find their own answers; this is useful when someone wants to explore values, purpose, or relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Sessions involve identifying unhelpful thinking, trying small behavior changes, and building new routines to reduce anxiety and improve sleep.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kathy will talk with the person about goals and preferences and suggest options. Treatment is adjusted as progress is made so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy lets people fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging work well for short check-ins, homework review, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These formats increase flexibility and make it easier to keep continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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