About Kathleen
Kathleen Wright is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. She brings 11 years of experience to conversations about relationships, family problems, addictions, and mood challenges. Her tone is practical and direct, aimed at people who want clear next steps.
Kathleen centers sessions on each person's strengths and priorities. She listens first, then helps set small, doable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often cover skill-building for impulse control, emotion regulation, and managing daily routines. Her work includes trauma-focused techniques and cognitive-behavioral strategies to address post-traumatic stress, disruptive mood patterns, and co-occurring conditions. She uses Motivational Interviewing to support change when people feel stuck or ambivalent.
Kathleen focuses on young adult issues and women's concerns while also addressing broader adult life challenges like career stress, parenting strain, grief, and intimacy-related problems. She pays attention to how mood disorders and impulsivity affect daily life and relationships. People who meet with Kathleen can expect a collaborative process.
She helps them make concrete plans, track small wins, and adjust strategies over time. Her aim is steady, practical progress rather than quick fixes.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflects what they say, and helps them identify their own goals; this approach is useful for building trust and exploring stressful life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. In online sessions CBT can include setting practical homework, trying new routines, and practicing coping skills between meetings to manage anxiety, depression, ADHD symptoms, and impulsivity.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods as work progresses. Clients help shape the plan and try approaches to see what fits best.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues during deeper conversations, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or busy family schedules and to continue care while traveling or living abroad.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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