About Kathleen
Kathleen Puleo is a California-licensed psychologist with nearly two decades of clinical practice experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, mood swings, and ADHD. Her style is straightforward and respectful, aimed at making therapy understandable and useful for everyday life.
She meets clients where they are and tailors sessions to practical needs. Kathleen listens for patterns that get in the way - like negative self-talk, impulsive reactions, or communication breakdowns - and helps people try different ways of responding.
Background and approach
She uses evidence-based techniques and teaches simple skills people can use between sessions. Many clients come for help with relationships, parenting strain, grief, or life transitions. Kathleen also works with concerns such as anger, body image, eating issues, and career stress.
She pays attention to attachment and abandonment themes when they affect how people connect with others. In sessions she may introduce mindfulness exercises to calm the body and attention, and cognitive strategies to shift unhelpful thinking. She emphasizes small, achievable steps so progress feels manageable rather than overwhelming.
Kathleen brings 19 years of practice in California as CA Psychologist 22642. She offers talks that are direct and compassionate, and she aims to create a collaborative plan that fits each person’s goals and daily life.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Many clients find benefit from approaches that teach clear skills to manage emotion and attention. One approach she uses is mindfulness-based stress reduction, which involves short attention and breathing exercises to reduce reactivity and calm the body; this can help with anxiety, racing thoughts, and impulsivity. Another common approach is cognitive work that focuses on identifying and reframing unhelpful thoughts so behavior and mood can change; this helps with low mood, worry, and patterns that interfere with relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client review goals, try methods in session, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. That collaborative process helps tailor techniques to daily life and particular struggles such as ADHD-related distractibility or emotional reactivity.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and demonstrations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging work well for brief check-ins or when a shorter touchpoint is needed. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or school schedules and help maintain momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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