About Kathleen
Kathleen Sutton is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people find steadier ground during hard transitions. She brings 11 years of clinical experience and a background as a parenting coach and educator. Kathleen speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
She uses a strengths-based, client-centered way of working. Sessions typically start with listening and building a trusting relationship.
Background and approach
From there she helps people identify patterns that get in the way and practices that support clearer thinking, better emotion regulation, and healthier relationships. Her work includes support for parenting questions, struggles with self-esteem, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and trauma. Kathleen also focuses on compassion fatigue, career stress, sleep and eating concerns, and managing mood differences such as bipolar symptoms.
Aging and caregiver stress are among the topics she often addresses. Her toolkit draws on several evidence-informed methods. She blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), attachment-based ideas, and client-centered listening.
She also integrates art-based and somatic practices when they suit a person’s goals and style. Kathleen holds LCPC and LPC credentials and practices in Nevada. She works with adults who want practical strategies, skill building, and someone to help them navigate change.
If someone is ready to take a step, she begins by learning what matters most and tailoring the work to those priorities.
Therapeutic approaches for online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that reflect their values. It supports people coping with anxiety, life changes, and low motivation by teaching practical ways to move toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and shift thinking and behavior patterns that increase distress. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, sleep difficulties, and many everyday problems.Kathleen treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She listens first, reviews what has helped or not helped before, and then tries methods that match the person's goals and preferences. That collaborative process can include mixing ACT, CBT, attachment ideas, DBT skills, and art or somatic exercises when they fit.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for longer therapy work and hands-on art or somatic practices that benefit from visual connection. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick support, reflections between sessions, or when writing helps someone process thoughts. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Nevada, Washington
- Languages
- English