About Kathleen
Kathleen Nealon is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and attention challenges like ADHD. She frames therapy as walking alongside someone during hard moments and aims to be a steady, practical presence. Her style is warm and focused on strengths.
She listens first and tailors the plan to each person. Kathleen uses a mix of methods rather than a single technique. That means sessions can include exploring past patterns, identifying immediate steps to reduce stress, and trying new ways of coping that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Her background includes long-term work in diverse settings and communities. Kathleen has experience supporting people who have faced homelessness, addiction recovery, loss, and trauma after disasters. She also spent extended time living and working in Haiti, which informs her cross-cultural perspective.
Her undergraduate training in special education shaped how she understands people who learn or think differently. That experience helps when clients want strategies for organization, routines, or managing attention and executive function. Kathleen draws on practical interventions and conversation to build skills clients can use between sessions.
She emphasizes the relationship in therapy and works in a way that centers each person’s goals and preferences. Sessions are aimed at helping people make real changes, cope with transitions, and regain a clearer sense of daily functioning and hope.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Kathleen uses a mix of evidence-based techniques to match each person’s needs. Cognitive behavioral approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and manage attention and sleep. Sessions often include practical exercises to try between meetings.Solution-focused and motivational strategies concentrate on small, achievable steps. These approaches help people set clear goals, track progress, and build momentum when coping with life changes, parenting stress, or recovery work. They are brief and action-oriented.
Choosing the right approach is a joint process. Kathleen listens to your priorities, discusses possible methods, and adjusts plans as you learn what works. She aims to make therapy match your goals, pace, and daily life.
Online formats offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls let you work face-to-face from wherever you are. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support quick questions, check-ins, and brief skill work between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Haitian Creole
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