About Kathleen
Kathleen "Kathy" Harvey is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, and ADHD. She listens closely and helps clients name what feels most urgent. Her style is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at everyday change rather than theory.
Kathy focuses on improving communication and coping during transitions. She helps people work through relationship strain, grief, sleep problems, anger, and career questions.
Background and approach
She also supports those dealing with trauma, addiction, and compassion fatigue. Her sessions are collaborative. Kathy uses straightforward techniques to build skills and set manageable goals.
She adapts the work to each person, moving between problem-solving and emotional processing as needed. Kathy draws from client-centered principles to keep the conversation focused on each person's priorities. She also uses cognitive behavioral methods to spot patterns of thinking and try new behaviors.
Motivational interviewing helps when people feel stuck or ambivalent about change. Over a long career in New Jersey, Kathy has worked with many life stages and concerns. She pays attention to family of origin issues, codependency, and recovery from process and substance addictions.
Her approach emphasizes small steps that add up to meaningful progress. People who choose Kathy often want practical tools and steady support. She encourages self-compassion and clearer boundaries while helping clients reconnect with life purpose and healthier routines.
Approaches and online options that meet you where you are
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's priorities and creates room to talk about what matters most. It emphasizes listening, validation, and guiding clients to make their own choices about change.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try behavioral experiments. It is often used for anxiety, sleep problems, and mood challenges by teaching concrete skills to shift thinking and routine.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide whether to emphasize skill-building, motivational work, or processing difficult memories.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation from different locations. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or an option for those who communicate better in writing.
These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care around busy schedules and life transitions, while allowing the therapist to use the same clinical tools and collaborative planning as in person.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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