About Kathleen

Kathleen McCarthy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Wisconsin. She brings 34 years of experience to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, and a wide range of life challenges. Her approach is grounded and practical, aimed at making daily life feel more manageable.

Kathleen uses techniques that address thoughts, behaviors, and bodily reactions. She works with people on grief, addictions, self-esteem, career concerns, and major life transitions.

Background and approach

She also supports those dealing with parenting strain, eating and sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue. In trauma-focused work she uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. She pairs that with mindfulness and solution-focused strategies to help people build coping skills and move forward.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her toolkit for changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Kathleen describes her outlook as holistic, paying attention to mind, body, and spirit when relevant. She aims to help clients identify habits that get in the way of their goals and develop realistic steps to change them.

Sessions include practical exercises and simple homework tasks to reinforce progress. She is also experienced supporting people with adoption and foster care concerns, fertility and first responder issues, post-traumatic stress, and mood disorders. Sessions are offered in English, and international clients can work with her by arranging online formats that fit their schedules.

Approaches and online options for practical healing

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people notice and change thought and behavior patterns that make problems worse. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating issues, and everyday stress. EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, focuses on reducing the emotional charge of traumatic memories so they feel less disruptive to daily life. Hypnotherapy uses guided relaxation and focused attention to address habits, stress responses, and some mood or behavior concerns.

Finding the right method is part of the process. Kathleen will work together with each person to choose approaches that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Plans are adjusted as progress appears, and techniques can be combined to suit individual priorities.

Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for in-depth work and seeing nonverbal cues, phone calls can be lower bandwidth or simpler for short check-ins, and chat or messaging can help maintain momentum between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives, across time zones, or when leaving home is difficult.

Questions people ask

What concerns does she help with?
She works with adults on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and ADHD, plus relationship and intimacy-related struggles and grief.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is practical and collaborative, combining cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, solution-focused work, and trauma-focused methods to build coping skills.
How much experience does she have?
She has 34 years of experience as a clinician working with a broad range of concerns and life transitions.
What credentials and region are listed?
She holds a Wisconsin Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential - LCSW - and practices from Wisconsin.
Which languages are supported and can international clients connect?
Sessions are offered in English, and she does accept international clients for online work.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.

What this therapist works with

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Experience
34 years
Licensed
Wisconsin
Languages
English

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