About Kathlena
Kathlena Reed is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who focuses on practical, skills-based therapy for stress and anxiety. She brings six years of counseling experience and aims to help people manage symptoms and find clearer ways forward. Her work often blends straightforward tools with trauma-aware care.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to build emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills. Motivational Interviewing guides clients through change when habits and addiction are involved.
Background and approach
Clients meet someone who favors clear goals and small, manageable steps. Sessions tend to include skill practice, reflections on progress, and plans for real-life application. The tone is direct but warm, focused on what people can do between appointments.
Kathlena has experience treating anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and substance use issues, including drug and alcohol addiction. She also works with trauma and related problems such as post-traumatic stress and postpartum depression. Additional attention is given to feelings like guilt, shame, and struggles with self-love.
Based in Florida, she uses a collaborative style that invites questions and feedback. She also supports people thinking about life purpose, forgiveness, and impulsivity, helping them move toward practical changes that fit their daily lives.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Kathlena often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through exercises and homework. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, mood challenges, and stress management. Dialectical Behavior Therapy focuses on building coping skills for intense emotions and improving relationships through skills like emotion regulation and distress tolerance, which can help with impulsivity and mood swings.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She works with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences, and adjusts the plan as progress is made. Clients can expect to discuss what works, try different strategies, and set concrete goals together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video visits allow face-to-face interaction and screen-sharing for worksheets, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, chat can support short check-ins, and messaging works for quick reflections or between-session support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while using the same CBT, DBT, and motivational techniques as in-person work.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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