About Kathleen
Kathleen Murphy is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of clinical experience. She practices in Florida and draws on a long career helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life transitions. Her manner is warm and direct, and she aims to make sessions feel focused and practical.
She uses a mix of approaches to fit each person's needs rather than one fixed method. Kathleen listens first to understand a person's story.
Background and approach
Then she helps set clear goals and works with the person to try useful strategies that fit their daily life. Her background includes a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara University and many years working across different regions of the United States. Those experiences inform a practice that pays attention to cultural context and individual differences.
In sessions Kathleen combines client-centered listening with techniques that address thinking patterns and present-day choices. She also draws on mindfulness and motivational approaches to help people build small, sustainable changes. The tone in the room is compassionate and goal-oriented, with a readiness to be straightforward when that helps.
People come to her for help with relationship issues, parenting stress, career questions, feelings of isolation, and other concerns such as abandonment, forgiveness, and life purpose. She works to make therapy a collaborative process and focuses on practical steps clients can use between appointments.
How Kathleen’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following your lead. It helps when people want a space to be heard and to clarify what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses straightforward exercises and skill-building to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression and to change unhelpful patterns.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple awareness practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. It is useful for stress, grief, and situations where slowing down helps decision making.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust as needed in collaboration with the client.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for more in-depth conversation and exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for short check-ins, brief coping strategies, or when scheduling a longer session is difficult. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats to see what feels most helpful.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English