About Kathryn
Dr. Kathryn Cornella is a licensed psychologist in Arizona with ten years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, build self-esteem, and find clearer direction in their careers and life.
Her background includes work on workplace dynamics and individualized career planning. She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. She takes a practical, step-by-step approach in sessions.
That can mean setting concrete goals, tracking progress, and using specific strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to change unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-based and client-centered ideas to strengthen relationships and emotional awareness. Dr. Cornella has experience addressing addiction and relapse prevention with attention to how mood, cognition, and behavior interact.
She emphasizes lifestyle factors such as sleep, activity, and nutrition as part of sustaining mental energy and wellbeing. When helpful, she integrates work on circadian rhythms and movement into treatment planning. Her training includes a PhD in organizational psychology and experience evaluating executive and management dynamics.
That background informs focused career consultations that include goal-setting, accountability, and celebrating milestones. Clients often work on navigating workplace stress and clarifying professional priorities. Faith and values can be part of sessions when clients want that included.
Dr. Cornella respects individual beliefs and can incorporate those perspectives into support for healing, forgiveness, and personal growth.
Evidence-informed approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions toward them even when feelings are uncomfortable. It can help with anxiety, stress, and finding purpose. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with practical exercises and homework to reduce anxiety and improve sleep and mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and helps people change how they seek support and connect with others.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then try techniques that match those needs. Clients and the therapist check in regularly and adjust the plan as progress and priorities change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit care into a busy life. Video sessions work well for in-depth conversations and skill teaching. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support brief coaching, tracking progress, and follow-up between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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