About Kathleen
Kathleen Martello is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a calm, listening presence. She practices in Pennsylvania and brings ten years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, and mood concerns. She offers services in English and Spanish and incorporates a respectful, person-focused style in sessions.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Kathleen also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to help people clarify values and take meaningful steps toward them.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be practical and grounded, with simple tools people can use between meetings. Her background includes work with trauma, interpersonal violence, and complicated grief, and she supports people dealing with relationship wounds like abandonment, codependency, and attachment struggles. She also helps with career questions, parenting strain, and feelings of isolation or shame.
Kathleen frames treatment around each person’s goals and life context rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Clients can expect straightforward conversations about coping skills, communication, and decision-making. Techniques may include behavioral exercises, problem-solving, and strategies drawn from dialectical approaches when emotion regulation is a focus.
The emphasis is on small, sustainable changes that fit daily life. Her training includes a master’s degree and licensure as an LPC and LPCC. People who prefer sessions in Spanish can work with her in that language.
The initial steps are practical and focused on finding what matters to the individual.
Approaches That Guide Online Sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take action toward those values even with uncomfortable feelings present. ACT is often useful for anxiety, stress, and questions about life direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve functioning. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and mood concerns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathy, listening, and collaboration so the person feels heard and can guide the pace of work.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to goals, strengths, and daily demands, then suggest methods that fit those needs. Treatment choices are revisited as progress unfolds so the plan stays aligned with what the person wants to achieve.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work for people who prefer writing, want ongoing check-ins, or need quick access between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and everyday routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York, Pennsylvania, California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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