About Kathleen
Kathleen (Kathy) Malone is a Licensed Professional Counselor with ten years of clinical experience based in Missouri. She focuses on helping people manage grief, rebuild intimacy, and strengthen self-esteem. Kathy offers straightforward support for practical concerns like parenting stress, career decisions, and life transitions.
She approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Kathy adapts conversations and plans to match what a person needs right now. She blends practical tools with reflective work so people can notice changes in day-to-day life.
How Kathleen works
Her work addresses relationship and commitment challenges, codependency, and issues that come from family of origin patterns. She also supports people facing major life events such as cancer, hospice and end-of-life concerns, postpartum depression, and midlife shifts. These topics often combine emotional pain with decisions about next steps, and Kathy helps people sort through both.
Kathy uses therapeutic methods that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered techniques, Jungian ideas, mindfulness, and trauma-focused approaches. She explains methods plainly and matches them to a person’s goals. Sessions focus on clarity, useful coping skills, and pacing that feels manageable.
People who prefer calm, thoughtful conversation and practical tools tend to fit well with her style. Kathy aims to create a space where people can talk honestly and leave with concrete steps to try between sessions.
Kathleen lists 5 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.
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters most and taking small actions in line with those values. It helps with issues like life transitions, commitment struggles, and persistent negative thoughts by teaching skills to accept hard feelings and move toward meaningful goals. Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s experience at the center of sessions; the therapist follows your lead, listens closely, and reflects back to help you find your own solutions. This approach supports self-esteem, decision-making, and building confidence.Kathy treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress and needs change.
Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls are useful for more in-depth conversation and visual connection. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or be easier when lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, coaching-style support, or people who prefer typing over speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around a busy life.
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