About Kathleen
Dr. Kathleen "Kathy" Meeks is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in Florida. She draws on 13 years of clinical experience to help people manage anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, parenting stress, and ADHD-related challenges.
She combines practical talking therapy with tools people can use between sessions. That can mean working on communication, coping skills for stress or anger, and steps to improve daily routines. She also helps people facing bigger life transitions and career-related strain.
Background and approach
Her approach adapts to each person. She commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and client-centered methods. Sessions focus on clear goals and real-life strategies rather than jargon.
When issues fall outside her scope, she will recommend consultation with medical specialists as needed. Her aim is to help clients increase functioning and feel more in control of day-to-day life. Dr.
Meeks frames therapy as a collaborative process. She works with clients to identify priorities, practice new skills, and track progress. People seeking help for relationship concerns, trauma, mood symptoms, parenting strain, or attention differences often find this practical orientation useful.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match their values. It is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress that gets in the way of daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to change mood and functioning; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and problems with attention or routine. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people build safer, more trusting ways of interacting when intimacy or connection feels difficult.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and check in about what helps. Clients and the therapist make decisions together so the work fits each person's needs and preferences.
Online sessions can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different situations. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises. Phone sessions work when lower bandwidth or a hands-free check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, written reflections, and ongoing support between appointments. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into work, school, or busy family routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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