About Kathleen
Kathleen Murphy is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience. She holds a master's degree in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara University and practices in Florida. Her approach is warm, focused, and interactive, and she adapts to each person's needs.
Kathleen uses a mix of methods to help people cope with stress and anxiety. She draws from cognitive behavioral ideas, client-centered work, mindfulness, existential questions, and motivational interviewing.
Background and approach
Sessions move at the client’s pace and focus on practical steps between meetings. She often helps people dealing with grief, depression, self-esteem issues, and major life changes. Other concerns she addresses include relationship and intimacy questions, parenting strain, career stress, anger, and adjustment after separation or loss.
She also works with issues such as abandonment, caregiver stress, isolation, and life purpose. Her style balances empathy with structure. Kathleen listens closely and offers clear tools for thinking and behavior.
She encourages small experiments that can reduce worry and build confidence over time. Having worked in different regions of the United States, she brings sensitivity to varied cultural backgrounds. Sessions are collaborative - clients set goals and Kathleen helps shape a plan to reach them.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging as ways to connect.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions support them
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person as a whole. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects feelings, and helps people clarify what matters most. This approach is useful for building trust and working through identity, self-esteem, or relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings. It uses simple exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and to try new behaviors that reduce anxiety or low mood. This method is often chosen for stress, anxiety, and depression because it targets immediate patterns that keep problems going.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kathleen will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match goals, values, and day-to-day life. She checks in regularly and adjusts strategies based on what helps most.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls provide face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, coaching between sessions, or support when writing feels easier than speaking. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on progress and usable skills.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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