About Kathryn
Dr. Kathryn Cornella is a licensed psychologist in Arizona with ten years of clinical experience. She combines practical strategies with a warm, straightforward style to help people manage stress, anxiety, ADHD, and life changes.
Her work also focuses on self-esteem, career concerns, addiction recovery, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. She uses a mix of evidence-informed approaches to meet real-life needs. Sessions often include goal setting, skills practice, and steps to improve sleep, energy, and daily routines.
Background and approach
The focus is on small, sustainable changes that add up over time. Dr. Cornella brings training in organizational psychology to conversations about work and career.
That background helps when talking about workplace stress, leadership challenges, and planning next steps in a job or career path. She offers structured consultations for people who want clear goals and accountability. Her approach to addiction emphasizes relapse prevention and learning how substances and behaviors affect mood, thinking, and self-control.
She encourages clients to build routines around exercise, nutrition, and sleep to support long-term change. Therapy includes understanding past patterns and practicing different choices in daily life. Dr.
Cornella integrates attention to values and, when clients wish, spiritual beliefs as part of wellbeing. She welcomes people of different faiths and life perspectives and connects therapeutic work to what matters most to each person.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters most and building actions that align with those values. It helps people with anxiety, stress, life transitions, and motivation by teaching flexible ways to respond to difficult thoughts and feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and replace them with skills that produce better short-term results. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and ADHD-related challenges when structure and routines are needed.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and daily life demands and then try techniques that fit. Clients and therapist review what helps and adjust methods over time in a collaborative way.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match practical needs. Video calls allow more interactive work and screen-sharing of tools. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Messaging and live chat are useful for shorter check-ins, brief coaching, or when a written record of strategies is helpful. These options make it easier to fit therapy into workdays, caregiving schedules, and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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