About Kathleen
Kathleen Eager-Ariz is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people carrying heavy stress, anxiety, depression, or the daily strain of parenting and work. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps to make life feel more manageable. Kathleen pays attention to habits, emotions, and the small changes that add up over time.
She sees how past experiences can keep someone stuck and looks for patterns that get in the way of feeling better.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and person-centered, with a focus on solutions you can try between meetings. Kathleen draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to inform the work. People come with many concerns, including trauma, relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, sleep and eating struggles, anger, and challenges related to ADHD.
Kathleen also addresses issues like impulsivity, attachment wounds, caregiver stress, and coping with chronic illness. She works to make goals concrete and steps actionable. Her style is warm, direct, and optimistic.
She encourages small experiments and regular check-ins to measure progress. Kathleen aims to help clients notice what’s working and change what isn’t. Based in Texas, Kathleen has three years of professional experience as an LPC.
She offers a range of session formats so people can choose what fits their schedule and needs.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that align with their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low motivation, and adjusting to life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening relationships.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kathleen will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest approaches to try. They then decide together which methods feel most helpful and adjust the plan over time based on what works.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and chat or messaging can be helpful for quick reflections or ongoing support between sessions. These options aim to make it easier to keep therapy consistent and practical for many schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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