About Kitty
Kitty Bartley is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 20 years of experience in counseling and social work. She began her career as a social worker in Ohio and moved into mental health counseling after personal experience with therapy inspired her path. Kitty focuses on practical skills people can use in everyday life.
She emphasizes rewiring negative thought patterns into more helpful ones. Kitty aims to teach tools that stay useful long after sessions end.
Background and approach
She draws on a mix of approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges. Sessions often include clear strategies for coping, problem solving, and shifting unhelpful thinking. Her work also addresses life transitions, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, addictions, career stress, and compassion fatigue.
Kitty supports people working through trauma and mood conditions such as bipolar disorder. She offers coaching-style guidance alongside therapeutic work when clients want goal-focused changes. In the room she tends to be direct and practical.
She explains techniques in simple language and practices them with clients so they feel doable. Many people come away with step-by-step plans for everyday struggles. Sessions are offered in English and are available by several online formats.
Kitty asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire to help pair goals and logistics before scheduling.
How Kitty's approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and for people juggling attention and motivation challenges. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, examines the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns. It is commonly used for anxiety, mood concerns, and problems with focus or impulse control. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens closely and follows the client's priorities, which supports people who want a collaborative space to sort choices and goals.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kitty will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try first. The process is collaborative and can mix techniques from different approaches as needs become clearer.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits the day. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share updates or get brief support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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