About Kathleen
Kathleen McCarthy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 34 years of experience. She practices from Wisconsin and offers therapy in English, including to international clients. Her work often focuses on anxiety and stress alongside trauma, mood concerns, and life changes.
Kathleen uses several approaches to help people feel steadier and more capable. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and change day-to-day behaviors. She also uses trauma-focused methods aimed at easing the impact of painful memories.
Background and approach
A practical, mind-body perspective shapes her sessions. Kathleen incorporates mindfulness and solution-focused strategies to build coping skills and set manageable goals. Hypnotherapy is another option she may use when it fits a person’s needs.
She has particular experience with grief, addiction, self-esteem struggles, eating and sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue. Military and first responder issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and fertility-related stress are among other areas she has addressed over her career. Kathleen aims to help people examine thoughts and behaviors that get in the way of what they want.
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with a focus on what works in daily life. People who prefer online formats can choose video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging for their sessions.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
CBT helps people notice patterns of thought and behavior that keep anxiety and low mood going, then practices clear steps to change them. It is useful for everyday worries, sleep and eating issues, and many mood concerns.EMDR is a trauma-focused method that works with how upsetting memories are stored in the brain. It can help reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and the distress they cause in daily life.
Kathleen will work collaboratively to find the best approach for each person. She listens to goals and preferences, then suggests methods and checks in regularly to adjust the plan as needed. Finding the right fit is part of the work together rather than a one-time decision.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for visual connection and longer therapy sessions. Phone can be easier when a call fits a short break or when lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, next-step planning, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep continuity when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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