About Kathleen

Kathleen Zayas is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 25 years of clinical experience in Florida. She helps people manage stress and anxiety and navigate relationship and parenting challenges. Her approach is straightforward and compassionate.

Kathleen aims to make the first step feel less overwhelming. Clients can expect a calm, nonjudgmental space to talk through hard things. Kathleen focuses on practical skills and clearer communication so daily life feels more manageable.

Background and approach

She listens for what matters most and tailors sessions to each person’s situation. Her work often addresses family conflict, caregiver stress, and the strain of parenting. She also supports people dealing with control issues, isolation, or the fallout from divorce and separation.

ADHD is one of the concerns she lists among her specialties. Therapeutic tools draw on approaches like acceptance and commitment strategies, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness practices. These methods are used to help people notice thoughts, shift unhelpful patterns, and try small changes between sessions.

Kathleen sees therapy as a collaborative process. She helps clients set realistic goals and checks in about what is or isn’t working. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.

How Kathleen uses evidence-based approaches online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice their thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It’s useful for stress, anxiety, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior and teaches tools to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety and daily stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving how people handle conflict and relationships.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Kathleen collaborates with each client to pick techniques that match their goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan based on what helps most in real life.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is good for a full-session conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing, brief exchanges between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to try different formats as needs change.

Questions people ask

What kinds of concerns does she help with?
Kathleen supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, family and parenting challenges, and ADHD. She also addresses caregiver stress, communication problems, control issues, divorce and separation, forgiveness, isolation, and narcissism-related dynamics.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is calm and direct. Sessions focus on clear communication, practical skills, and gradual steps clients can try between meetings.
What background and experience does she bring?
She has 25 years of professional experience working in mental health settings. That experience informs how she listens and responds to common life stressors and relationship struggles.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds the credential LMFT, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and practices in Florida.
Which languages are offered and can she work with people abroad?
Sessions are offered in English. She does not accept international clients at this time.
What formats are available for sessions?
Therapy can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits the client’s needs.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

What this therapist works with

Most often

Experience
25 years
Licensed
Florida
Languages
English

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