About Kathleen
Kathleen Sutton is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people find steadiness during hard transitions. She listens carefully and helps clients build practical skills for stress, anxiety, ADHD, depression, and relationship or parenting concerns. She brings 11 years of clinical experience and a background as a parenting coach and educator.
Her work draws on strengths-based, client-centered principles. She aims to create a respectful space where people feel heard and understood before moving into skill building.
Background and approach
Kathleen uses a mix of mindfulness, talk therapy, and body-informed techniques to address emotional pain. She often combines these with practical tools from cognitive behavior approaches to manage worry, mood, and impulsivity. Expressive arts and somatic techniques are offered when they fit a person's needs and comfort level.
Her background includes work in residential treatment, outpatient group settings, correctional facilities, assisted living, and community art therapy programs. This variety informs a flexible style that adapts to different life stages and concerns. Kathleen has long worked with adults on issues related to identity, self-esteem, grief, trauma, burnout, and life direction.
In sessions she may offer psychoeducation, short skill practices, and experiments to try between meetings. The goal is to strengthen coping, improve emotional regulation, and help people reconnect with values and meaningful goals. She guides change at a pace that fits each person's situation.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take action toward what matters most. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and making changes that align with personal values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, mood, ADHD-related challenges, and stress management.Choosing the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will listen to your concerns, goals, and daily challenges and suggest methods that fit your needs. This collaborative process may combine approaches and adjust over time as progress and preferences emerge.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which lets people fit therapy into busy lives. Video sessions work well for longer talks and skills practice, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and live chat or messaging can provide quick check-ins or brief support between meetings. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and try different formats to find what works best for you.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's 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
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Nevada, Washington
- Languages
- English
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