About Kathleen
Kathleen Nealon is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, and parenting stress. She offers a calm, steady presence and listens closely to understand each person's situation. Her style is warm and practical, aimed at helping people regain a sense of control and hope.
Kathleen adapts her approach to fit each person rather than using one fixed method. She draws on a mix of evidence-based therapeutic techniques to match a person's needs, preferences, and personality.
How Kathleen works
Sessions focus on strengths, real-life skills, and rebuilding routines that help day-to-day functioning. She brings 12 years of clinical experience and a background that includes work with people affected by addiction, homelessness, disaster, and serious illness. Kathleen has also spent time living and working across cultures, including five years in Haiti, which informs her culturally aware approach.
Her training and early work in special education guide how she supports people who learn or think differently. She uses clear, straightforward strategies to address attention differences, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, and relationship concerns. Kathleen offers sessions in English and Haitian Creole and practices in Florida.
Her work emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and a trauma-informed lens while helping people navigate life changes, loss, or ongoing challenges.
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.
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English, Haitian Creole |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques are used to guide sessions in ways that fit each person's goals. Cognitive behavioral approaches focus on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and improve sleep. Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons for change and build motivation for tasks like recovery from addiction or making lifestyle shifts.The right approach is a shared decision. Kathleen will work with each person to decide which techniques to try first based on their goals, challenges, and how they prefer to work. That collaborative process can be adjusted as progress is made and new needs appear.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to reflect between sessions or fit support into a busy day. These options help people keep therapy consistent while balancing school, work, caregiving, or other obligations.
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