About Kathleen
Kathleen Connolly is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with 20 years of practice. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and life transitions. Her approach is warm and practical, aimed at helping someone feel steadier and more in control.
Kathleen spent two decades working in a range of settings with many kinds of people. Much of her work involves supporting those facing career shifts, relationship changes, aging and caregiver strain, or grappling with grief and loss.
Background and approach
She also helps people with sleep, eating, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder. She centers the relationship with each person as the starting point for change. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Kathleen helps clients notice strengths, practice new coping skills, and try small experiments that reduce overwhelm. Her work blends practical strategies with reflective conversation. Techniques draw on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, narrative approaches, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing.
That mix lets her tailor care to what feels most useful for the person in front of her. Kathleen makes clear limits about urgent safety needs and does not take people who have thought about suicide in the last six months. She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
She practices in Massachusetts and sees people in English only. To begin, someone completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a time that fits their routine. Kathleen aims to help people move through change with more confidence and fewer setbacks.
Approach Choices and Online Care
Client-centered therapy focuses on meeting someone where they are and building a trusting relationship. It emphasizes listening, reflection, and helping a person discover their own solutions to problems. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and ADHD-related barriers. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus and calm.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kathleen will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan over time based on what feels most helpful.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into a busy life. Video lets for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when less bandwidth is available, live chat and messaging allow short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling and for using formats that feel most comfortable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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