About Kathleen
Dr. Kathleen Hathaway helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, self-esteem concerns, and career questions. She also offers coaching for life direction and midlife shifts.
Dr. Hathaway uses clear, practical methods to help people move forward and feel more capable day to day. She meets people where they are and frames therapy as problem-solving together.
Sessions focus on what the person wants to change and on small steps that make a difference.
How Kathleen works
Her style is calm and focused, mixing listening with direct tools people can use between sessions. Over her 25-year career she has worked with a wide range of concerns including abandonment, caregiver strain, chronic pain and illness, communication problems, disaster recovery, divorce and separation, and family of origin issues.
She also supports people facing guilt, shame, loneliness, loss of purpose, veteran and first responder issues, and mood disorders. Her approach draws on client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, the Gottman Method for relationship patterns, solution-focused planning, and Internal Family Systems ideas about inner parts. Those methods are woven into practical plans that address symptoms and real-life situations.
Dr. Hathaway holds a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist credential, LMFT, and practices in Washington. She offers sessions in English and provides a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs.
Kathleen lists 6 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
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Washington |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and building a trusting conversation. It helps people clarify what matters to them and feel heard while they sort through decisions and emotions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. It is useful for anxiety, stress, mood shifts, and for learning skills to manage difficult moments.
The Gottman Method looks at relationship patterns and communication habits. It offers concrete exercises to reduce conflict and rebuild connection for people wanting change in their partnerships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels useful, then tailor methods together. This is a collaborative process rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls let people read facial cues and practice new skills in conversation. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people share thoughts between sessions and keep progress moving forward without waiting for an appointment.
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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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