About Kathleen
Kathleen McCarthy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 34 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and related concerns. She practices in Wisconsin and brings a whole-person perspective to therapy that includes thoughts, body sensations, and emotional life. Her approach mixes practical tools and deeper processing.
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to shape unhelpful thinking patterns and solution-focused methods to set clear steps forward. She also offers EMDR for trauma-related symptoms and hypnotherapy when it fits a person’s goals.
How Kathleen works
Sessions often include concrete skills people can use between meetings. Kathleen helps people identify patterns that get in the way and practices new responses together. She also uses mindfulness methods to build awareness and reduce overwhelm.
Her background includes long experience with mood disorders, grief, addiction concerns, and recovery from abuse. She has worked with people facing fertility stress, adoption and foster care questions, first responder challenges, and issues tied to military service and veteran life. People come for help with sleep and eating concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, career shifts, and compassion fatigue.
Kathleen supports work on self-esteem, coping with change, and managing symptoms of bipolar disorder, ADHD, and PTSD. She accepts international clients and offers sessions in English.
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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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 | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
Online approaches for trauma, thinking, and calm
Kathleen uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT focuses on small experiments and clear skills that reduce anxiety and improve mood. EMDR is offered for trauma-related symptoms and works by guiding attention while processing distressing memories to reduce their intensity and emotional hold.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and the nature of the problem, then recommend one or a mix of methods. This happens collaboratively so the plan matches what the person wants to accomplish and how they prefer to move forward.
Online therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and needs. Video allows face-to-face interaction for hands-on techniques, phone can be used when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed, and text or chat can fit quick updates or notes between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent during life changes and busy weeks.
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