About Kathleen
Kathleen Martello is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) who aims to make therapy straightforward and practical. She draws on ten years of experience to help people facing anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, and stress. Kathleen speaks English and Spanish and offers a calm, listening presence for clients who want a clear plan and steady support.
Her work focuses on understanding how past events affect present choices.
Background and approach
She helps people notice unhelpful core beliefs and learn skills to manage mood and behavior. Sessions often include skill practice, short-term problem solving, and steps clients can try between meetings. Kathleen uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and helps clients build healthier thinking patterns.
She also incorporates acceptance-based ideas to help people live in line with their values while managing difficult feelings. Her approach is grounded and relational, aiming to make therapy feel like a collaborative process rather than a lecture. People come to her for a range of concerns including grief, anger, career questions, parenting strain, and issues related to abandonment or attachment.
She also supports recovery after interpersonal violence and helps people working through codependency and communication problems. Sessions can be conducted in English or Spanish. Kathleen’s style emphasizes clear goals, practical homework, and steady encouragement so clients can see real changes over time.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small, steady steps toward those values while learning to sit with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, stress, and decisions about life direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to challenge unhelpful thinking and change behavior patterns useful for depression, anxiety, ADHD-related struggles, and mood issues. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens closely and supports the client’s own problem solving and personal growth.Choosing the right combination of approaches is a shared process. Kathleen will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the approach over time based on how the work progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video allows face-to-face conversation for skills practice, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text are useful for shorter check-ins or noting emotions between meetings. These options give flexibility so clients can pick the format that best fits their routine and comfort.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York, Pennsylvania, California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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