About Kathryn
Kathryn Kirkland-Franco uses a practical, person-focused approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, parenting worries, and major life changes. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with three decades of clinical experience in Texas. Kathryn writes and speaks plainly in sessions and aims to make therapy clear and useful from the first meeting.
Kathryn draws on approaches such as attachment-based work, client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral strategies, emotionally-focused ideas, and mindfulness.
How Kathryn works
She adapts these tools to the concerns a person brings rather than following a single formula. Sessions tend to focus on real problems and concrete steps people can try between meetings. People come for help with mood issues like depression and low self-esteem, anxiety and sleeping problems, anger, and the stress that shows up at work and home.
She also supports people facing trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and caregiving stress. Additional areas of focus include abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, chronic illness and pain, body image, and communication problems. Over 30 years Kathryn has worked with many kinds of life challenges and refined ways to listen, reflect, and guide toward clearer choices.
She encourages collaboration about goals and practical next steps. Her manner is calm and steady, aimed at helping people notice what works and build on it. Kathryn offers sessions in English in Texas and provides a range of online formats for those who prefer not to meet in person.
If someone wants to begin, they can use the site's matching process to schedule a first appointment.
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.
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Approach-focused care available online
Attachment-based work looks at how early connections shape current patterns and helps people understand trust, closeness, and distance in relationships. Client-centered therapy emphasizes a respectful, listening stance so people can speak freely and find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together and offers straightforward strategies to change unhelpful patterns and manage symptoms.Kathryn treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, try different tools, and adjust the plan based on what feels most useful. The process is collaborative and paced to the person's needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for fuller interaction and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and chat or messaging supports frequent brief contacts or note-style check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while using the approaches above to address relationship, mood, stress, and life-change concerns.
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