About Kathleen
Kathleen Puleo is a California-based psychologist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, mood changes, and relationship concerns. She is a CA Psychologist (license number 22642) with 19 years of experience. Kathleen focuses on practical steps people can use right away and keeps explanations clear and direct.
Kathleen listens first to understand what matters most to each person. She keeps sessions focused on specific goals and lets clients set the pace.
Background and approach
Her style is collaborative and respectful, with an emphasis on usable skills rather than jargon. Her work commonly addresses anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, ADHD, panic attacks, and problems with self-esteem and body image. She also supports people dealing with grief, life changes, caregiver stress, and issues around intimacy and communication.
Clients who struggle with anger, impulsivity, or control problems often learn concrete strategies to reduce reactivity. Kathleen uses treatments grounded in evidence and teaches techniques such as thought reframing and mindfulness to reduce distress. She helps people organize goals for career and parenting challenges, and she offers guidance on improving family dynamics without assuming a single path fits everyone.
Sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging, and scheduling follows a short matching process. To begin, prospective clients complete a brief questionnaire and then book sessions based on therapist availability. Kathleen aims to make therapy a practical, manageable step toward feeling better.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Many of Kathleen's approaches focus on teaching skills people can use between sessions. Cognitive techniques help people notice and reframe unhelpful thoughts that increase anxiety or mood symptoms. These methods show clients how to test and change thinking patterns to feel less overwhelmed.Mindfulness-based practices encourage simple present-moment awareness and breathing exercises to reduce stress and panic symptoms. These tools are brief and practical, and clients can practice them during daily routines to build calm over time.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kathleen works with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust strategies as progress is made. The therapist and client decide together which techniques feel most helpful and realistic for day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and text messaging is useful for brief updates or questions between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting sessions into work, parenting, or other routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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