About Kathey
Rev. Kathey Wilborn is a licensed clinical social worker with 34 years of experience in California. She blends a faith-informed perspective with practical help to guide people through hard moments.
Her approach centers on respect, sensitivity, and compassion for each person she meets. She works with people facing relationship strain and family conflict. She also helps with trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and major life changes.
Sessions focus on clear goals and steps you can try between appointments.
How Kathey works
Kathey adapts the conversation and the plan to fit each person's needs. That might mean focusing on coping skills, rebuilding confidence, or addressing painful memories. She emphasizes empowerment so people feel more able to make choices that match their values.
Her additional focus areas include body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, divorce and separation, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose. She also supports people coping with pregnancy and childbirth concerns, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, workplace stress, money worries, and midlife transitions. People meet with her using language that feels familiar and straightforward.
She frames change as a series of realistic steps, not a distant ideal. The goal is steady progress toward a more manageable, meaningful life.
What Kathey works with
The areas below are the ones Kathey selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 34 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care
Kathey uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional healing. One common approach centers on building coping skills and problem-solving steps people can try between sessions to manage stress, relationship strain, and life transitions. Another approach emphasizes working through traumatic memories and their impact so daily life feels less governed by past events; this often includes grounding and pacing strategies to reduce overwhelm.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped in the past. Together they decide which techniques to emphasize and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexibility and convenience through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect in writing between appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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