About Kathleen
Kathleen Connolly is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with 20 years of experience helping people through major life changes. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, career shifts, and grief. Kathleen speaks English and works with adults in Massachusetts.
Her approach starts with a respectful therapeutic relationship. Sessions focus on understanding what matters to each person and finding workable steps forward. She uses client-centered care alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness techniques to help people manage thoughts, emotions, and daily routines.
How Kathleen works
Kathleen draws on a long history of varied settings, so she’s used to different kinds of challenges. That background informs work on attachment and family of origin issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and aging concerns. She also supports people navigating identity issues including LGBT matters and aspects of kink and alternative sexual culture.
In sessions she helps people address practical problems like sleep, eating, and burnout from caregiving or compassion fatigue. She also works with mood differences such as bipolar presentations and co-occurring conditions. The focus is on small, achievable changes that improve everyday life.
To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button and completes a short matching questionnaire. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging and are scheduled according to therapist availability. Costs vary by location and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Kathleen lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Kathleen works with
The areas below are the ones Kathleen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
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Online support options
How approaches like CBT and mindfulness work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and helping people identify their own goals and strengths. It’s useful when someone wants a supportive space to make decisions and try new behaviors in daily life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood and then practices different ways of responding. It is helpful for anxiety, depression, sleep or eating problems, and managing stress through concrete exercises.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention and grounding practices that reduce reactivity and improve focus. These practices often help with anxiety, caregiver fatigue, and coping with chronic pain or persistent worry.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk about goals, try methods that fit a person's needs, and adjust based on what works. Sessions are collaborative and tailored rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls make it easier to hold deeper conversations and see facial cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, ongoing reflection between sessions, or support that fits into a busy day. Licensed professionals use these formats to make therapy more accessible and to match different communication styles.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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