About Kathleen
Kathleen Walker is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, addiction, and related concerns. She brings seven years of professional experience and a practical, straightforward style to sessions. Kathleen speaks English and works with adults by phone, video, chat, or text-based messaging.
She began a career change in her thirties and spent many years in training and practice. That shift led her to work closely with people facing addiction and impulse-related struggles.
Background and approach
Over time she also supported people coping with trauma, grief, depression, and ongoing anxiety. Kathleen uses a mix of evidence-informed approaches chosen to match each person's needs. She draws on acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior tools, existential reflection, and client-centered conversation.
Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking rather than jargon. In a typical session she listens first, then helps set small goals and build skills for daily life. She offers tools for managing distress, improving communication, and addressing patterns like codependency or control issues.
Work can include coping strategies for caregiver stress, body image concerns, eating-related issues, and grief. Kathleen describes therapy as a collaborative process. She helps people identify what matters to them, set realistic goals, and practice new ways of responding.
For someone facing life changes, addiction, or persistent anxiety, she aims to make progress feel manageable.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes when the goal is clearer direction rather than just symptom removal.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. It teaches concrete skills for reducing anxiety, changing behavior around addiction, and improving mood. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship and lets the person lead the pace and topics of work.
Finding the right approach is part of the clinical conversation. Kathleen will work collaboratively to choose methods that match a person's goals, strengths, and preferences. She often blends techniques so each person gets a tailored plan and clear steps to practice between sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skill coaching. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and texting allow frequent check-ins, skill reminders, and rapid support between visits. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to practice skills in everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Anger management
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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