Kathleen Cooley

Kathleen Cooley is a Licensed Master Social Worker with 40 years of experience who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, depression, parenting concerns, ADHD, and life changes including divorce and separation. She speaks plainly and listens closely so people feel heard when they first reach out. Kathleen aims to make the first step less scary and to treat each person with respect and warmth.

Her work style blends practical techniques with a person-focused approach. She uses cognitive and behavioral methods alongside reality-based ideas and borrows other methods as needed. Kathleen has recent training in Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD and draws on trauma-focused strategies when appropriate.

She has worked across settings with children in schools, college students, adults, and people with serious mental health challenges as well as adjustment difficulties. Her experience includes supporting people after sexual and other abuse, suicidal thoughts, selective mutism, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and caregiver stress.

In sessions she likes to see clients by video so she can maintain face-to-face contact, though phone and text options are also an option. She plans to work part time in retirement and is open to meeting people who want a steady, experienced presence while they work through difficult changes.

Kathleen focuses on clear, manageable steps in therapy. She helps clients set goals, try new skills between sessions, and track small changes that add up over time.

How Kathleen Uses Therapy Approaches Online

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current ways of connecting and reacting. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and work toward feeling safer with others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and gives concrete tools to reduce anxiety, depression, and mood swings. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on processing distressing events and developing skills to manage strong memories and reactions.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kathleen will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and will adjust methods over time. She works with clients to try techniques, check what helps, and shift course when needed so the work fits the person's life.

Video sessions are Kathleen's preferred format because she values seeing people face to face, though she also offers phone and text contact as options. If you want online sessions, confirm the available formats when you schedule so they match your day-to-day needs. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so people can use a break at work or a quiet moment at home to attend.