About Kirk
Kirk Postlewaite is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in Vermont who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and parenting or family concerns. He uses a straightforward, compassionate style and aims to create a space where people can talk honestly about what is hard for them. Kirk emphasizes practical steps and personal responsibility, balanced with patience and self-acceptance.
He brings six years of licensed practice and many more years working in mental health settings before earning his LCMHC.
Background and approach
His background includes supporting people with trauma and abuse, anger, addictions, grief, career strain, and compassion fatigue. He also focuses on fatherhood issues, first responder concerns, and midlife challenges. In sessions he blends client-centered conversation with techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral methods and solution-focused work.
Mindfulness is woven into his approach to help people notice patterns and reduce reactivity. Motivational interviewing informs moments when someone is weighing change and needs clear, practical encouragement. Kirk prefers clear goals and uses short-term skill building alongside deeper reflective work when it fits.
He often helps clients break big problems into manageable steps and track small wins. Parents and people juggling work and family responsibilities may find this practical emphasis useful. People who want direct feedback, simple tools to try between sessions, and a therapist who is both empathetic and candid will likely connect with his approach.
Kirk aims to partner with each person to find realistic ways forward.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's concerns without directing them. It helps people feel heard and clarifies what they want to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and offers concrete skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and handle ADHD-related challenges.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Kirk will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That might mean starting with short-term solution-focused steps and adding mindfulness practice or CBT techniques as needed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls let you use visual cues and teach exercises together, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and access different kinds of support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Vermont
- Languages
- English
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