About Kathy
Kathy Duncan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with three decades of experience in mental health practice. She works from Tennessee and brings long-term clinical experience to sessions. Kathy focuses on helping people who are struggling with mood, anxiety, trauma, and life changes, including ADHD-related concerns.
Kathy prefers straightforward, practical conversations. She uses clear methods to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try different responses. Sessions are calm and nonjudgmental, with an emphasis on building trust and steady progress.
Background and approach
Her work blends cognitive behavioral techniques with client-centered and psychodynamic ideas. That means she helps people change patterns in thinking and behavior, listens deeply to what matters to them, and pays attention to how past experiences shape current feelings. She draws on these approaches to address depression, panic, anger, grief, substance use, and relationship struggles.
Kathy has particular experience supporting people through trauma and abusive histories, as well as those coping with addictions and complex mood disorders. She also assists people managing ADHD symptoms and the stress that can come with juggling daily responsibilities. People who choose Kathy often want a steady, empathic professional who balances practical tools with thoughtful conversation.
She aims to help clients build skills they can use between sessions and to make therapy feel manageable for everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current trust and closeness. Kathy uses this perspective to help people understand patterns in relationships and to work on building more reliable connections and safety in how they relate to others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Kathy uses CBT tools to help people notice unhelpful thinking, test new ideas, and change behavior in ways that reduce anxiety, low mood, and problems with focus or routine. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kathy will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest approaches to try. She aims to be collaborative, adjusting techniques as needs and progress become clearer. Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat can be a brief check-in, and text messaging supports short reflections or reminders between visits. These options allow flexibility so people can pick the format that best matches their schedule and day-to-day needs.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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