About Kathryn
Kathryn Dunleavy is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) in Minnesota with 23 years of experience. She builds on long work in mental health to help people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addiction, and life changes.
She has worked across many settings, including inpatient care, partial programs, outpatient clinics, community services, crisis residential programs, and co-occurring mental health and substance use recovery programs. That range means she has seen many ways people get stuck and many paths toward change.
How Kathryn works
Her style is practical and warm. She values unconditional positive regard and focuses on building trust. Sessions are conversational and aim to help people name problems, test small changes, and notice what helps.
Therapeutic approaches include client-centered methods, emotionally-focused approaches, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative work. Kathryn uses these tools to address relationship concerns, family-of-origin issues, attachment and abandonment concerns, intimacy-related problems, and challenges like eating, sleeping, or career stress.
She helps people work through complicated situations such as blended family tensions, communication problems, control issues, divorce and separation, and co-morbid mental health and substance use concerns. She also supports those dealing with compassion fatigue, cancer-related stress, and struggles with self-esteem and emptiness. Kathryn aims to create nonjudgmental space where people can grieve, build resilience, and practice new ways of coping.
Her approach emphasizes connection, small experiments, and growing self-compassion over time.
Kathryn lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Kathryn works with
The areas below are the ones Kathryn selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
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Online support options
How Kathryn’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in the room, offering listening, empathy, and support so clients can find their own solutions. It helps when someone needs understanding and space to make changes at their own pace.Emotionally-focused therapy (EFT) looks at how emotions shape relationships and personal patterns. It is useful for addressing attachment concerns, abandonment feelings, intimacy-related issues, and improving emotional connection with others.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple practices to notice thoughts and bodily sensations without judgment. Those skills can help with anxiety, stress, sleep problems, and managing urges tied to addictive behavior.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kathryn will collaborate with each person to match techniques to their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adjusts methods over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people work face-to-face without travel. Phone sessions can fit brief check-ins or days with limited bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to send a quick update or get support between longer sessions. These options provide flexibility so therapy can fit into busy lives and different communication preferences.
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