About Kathryn
Kathryn Dunleavy, LPCC, brings 23 years of clinical experience to her work in Minnesota. She offers straightforward, steady support for people dealing with stress and anxiety. Kathryn speaks plainly and meets people where they are, focusing on practical steps and real-life changes.
Her background spans inpatient care, partial hospitalization, outpatient work, community programs, crisis residential services, and co-occurring mental health and substance use recovery programs. That range gives her familiarity with many situations and recovery paths.
Background and approach
She draws on approaches that center the person and build on strengths rather than labels. In sessions Kathryn uses client-centered methods and mindfulness to help people calm their minds and notice patterns that keep them stuck. She also incorporates emotionally-focused and narrative approaches to help people understand difficult feelings and reframe painful stories.
Motivational interviewing is used when clients want help finding real momentum toward change. She emphasizes trust and nonjudgmental support as the foundation for healing. Kathryn often works with people facing grief, relationship strain, changes at work or home, addiction concerns, trauma and eating or sleep problems.
She also supports those coping with compassion fatigue, attachment worries, and issues of self-esteem. Her style is collaborative and practical. Kathryn helps people set small, doable goals and practices they can use between sessions.
The aim is to increase resilience and self-compassion so clients can manage life’s ups and downs with more ease.
How Kathryn’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy places the person’s experience at the center of sessions. The therapist listens with acceptance and helps each person set goals that matter to them, which can be useful for anxiety, life changes, and self-esteem work.Emotionally-focused therapy helps people identify and name strong feelings and the patterns that keep them stuck. It is helpful for relationship strain, attachment issues, and processing grief by making emotions easier to understand and work through.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. These practices are often used between sessions to lower stress and improve sleep and focus.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Kathryn will work with each client to try methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they adjust techniques and pace so the work feels manageable and meaningful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls let people use face-to-face time for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera is difficult. Live chat or messaging can provide brief check-ins, homework prompts, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy steady around work, caregiving, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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