About Kathleen
Kathleen Nealon is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people cope with anxiety, stress, grief, and life changes. She offers a steady, listening presence and focuses on what someone needs right now. Her style is warm and practical, aimed at helping people take small, manageable steps forward.
She blends several evidence-based techniques rather than using a single method. Sessions focus on building a strong working relationship, identifying personal strengths, and creating concrete strategies for daily life.
Background and approach
Kathleen tailors her approach to each person's preferences and the challenges they bring. Her background includes long-term work with people who have experienced trauma, homelessness, addiction recovery, and loss. That experience informs how she responds to painful or complex situations and how she supports someone through transition.
Kathleen also has experience living and working cross-culturally, including time spent in Haiti, and she draws on that when helping people from different cultural backgrounds. Her undergraduate study in special education supports work with individuals who learn or process information differently. She provides care in English and Haitian Creole and practices in Florida.
With 12 years of clinical experience as an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - she focuses on helping people move toward improved daily functioning and greater emotional balance.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Kathleen commonly draws from cognitive behavioral techniques that look at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to build practical coping skills for anxiety, sleep problems, and mood difficulties. These techniques focus on small, doable changes and habit-building that can reduce daily distress.She also uses solution-focused strategies that target immediate goals and concrete next steps. This approach helps when someone wants fast, practical tools for parenting challenges, coping with transitions, or addressing stressors. Motivational interviewing is another method she uses to support people who are considering change, such as in recovery from addiction or shifting health behaviors; it helps clarify values and increase motivation without pressure.
Finding the right fit is collaborative. Kathleen will work with each person to decide which approaches make sense based on their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts plans over time and checks in to make sure the work feels useful and realistic.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is useful for longer sessions and when seeing facial cues matters. Phone calls can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit short updates, ongoing encouragement, or times when typing feels easier than speaking. These options aim to increase flexibility so therapy can fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Haitian Creole
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