About Kathleen
Kathleen Murphy is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of clinical experience. She holds a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and practices in Florida as an FL LMHC. Kathleen brings a warm, focused, and interactive style to sessions.
She adapts therapy to each person’s situation and favors a straightforward, compassionate manner. Kathleen combines structure and direct feedback with a listening stance that centers the client's own goals. Her approach is practical and goal-oriented, aimed at helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions.
How Kathleen works
Her background includes work across different regions of the United States, which has given her experience with varied cultural perspectives. That range informs how she tailors sessions for people coping with relationship struggles, parenting pressures, caregiving stress, or career concerns. She also helps with intimacy-related issues, trauma and abuse, and feelings of isolation.
Clinically she draws from client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral strategies, existential thinking, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. She uses these tools to help people explore meaning, change unhelpful thoughts, build coping skills, and reconnect with values. Sessions are collaborative and paced to what each person needs.
Kathleen works with people facing complicated family-of-origin issues, infidelity, abandonment, aging concerns, and the emotional fallout of divorce or separation. She emphasizes clear communication and practical steps toward healthier patterns. If someone wants to explore goals and regain a sense of direction, she offers steady, nonjudgmental support.
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in the room. It emphasizes listening, empathy, and helping people identify their own goals and strengths. This approach can help with self-esteem, relationship concerns, and finding direction when life feels uncertain.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. It offers concrete strategies to change unhelpful thinking and build coping skills for anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness techniques are often used alongside CBT to help people stay grounded and notice patterns as they arise.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kathleen will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, values, and practical needs. She adjusts techniques over time based on what helps most and what people prefer.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and deeper exchanges, phone calls can fit a busy schedule or use less bandwidth, and live chat or messaging work well for brief check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, family, or other commitments while keeping therapy consistent.
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