About Kathleen
Kathleen Cooley, LMSW, has worked as a social worker for 40 years and now offers part-time counseling. She understands that reaching out can feel frightening. She aims to create a space where people feel heard as they talk about hard things.
Kathleen draws on a long career supporting people through stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, relationship problems, and ADHD. Her approach is practical and straightforward. She uses Cognitive Behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses client-centered listening so people can set the pace and focus of sessions. Trauma-focused methods are used when past hurt keeps showing up in daily life. Kathleen has worked across many settings including schools, college counseling, and community mental health.
That background includes helping people with severe mental illness, adjustment problems, selective mutism, and histories of sexual and other abuse. She also supports people facing caregiver stress, end-of-life concerns, and aging-related challenges. Sessions are offered by video, phone, chat, or text, with a preference for video so both people can see each other.
Kathleen likes practical steps you can try between meetings and checks in on what is actually helping. Her style is warm, down-to-earth, and focused on what you want to change. If you are researching help for mood problems, relationship strain, or managing ADHD-related challenges, Kathleen invites you to reach out and begin the conversation.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape present patterns. It helps people notice how they connect with others and try new ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, feelings, and actions together. It teaches simple skills to change unhelpful thought patterns and test new behaviors for mood, anxiety, and ADHD-related challenges. Trauma-focused therapy helps people process painful memories and reduce their day-to-day impact by using structured techniques designed for healing.Kathleen will work together with each person to find which approach or mix of approaches fits best. That process begins in the first sessions by talking about goals, past experiences, and what has or has not helped. She adjusts methods as you go so the work stays useful and relevant to your life.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access. Video calls allow visual connection and fuller conversation, while phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let someone check in between sessions or communicate when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines while keeping the focus on practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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