About Kathleen
Kathleen Kallman uses a straightforward, skills-based approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and trauma. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC practicing in Missouri with 21 years of experience. Her style is direct but warm, aimed at practical change rather than jargon.
Kathleen helps people rebuild confidence and address intimacy concerns. She works with issues like addiction, grief, parenting stress, career strain, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
She also supports those facing fertility, pregnancy, postpartum concerns, and challenges tied to adoption and foster care. Her work draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going. Sessions include concrete tools to try between meetings and simpler ways to notice what triggers mood and stress.
Kathleen adapts these strategies to each person’s pace and needs. She has experience with first responder and veteran-related issues, and with people navigating midlife changes, hospice and end-of-life matters, or recovery from natural or human-caused disasters. Kathleen also offers support around aging, control issues, forgiveness, and self-harm concerns.
Her meetings are collaborative: she listens, asks practical questions, and helps set achievable goals. People who want steady, goal-oriented work with compassionate feedback may find her approach helpful. The focus is on small, manageable steps toward better coping and clearer decision making.
How CBT and online sessions work together
Kathleen draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and change small behaviors that keep problems in place. CBT sessions often involve identifying thought patterns, trying short experiments, and practicing new responses between meetings, which can be helpful for anxiety, depression, trauma symptoms, and relationship stress.She focuses on a collaborative process to find the best approach. The therapist and client work together to set goals, choose techniques, and adjust the plan based on what fits the person's needs and preferences. Finding the right method is part of the work and may change over time.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing body language matters. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging offer shorter check-ins, quick coaching, or a way to stay connected between longer sessions. These options provide flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels while keeping the focus on practical tools and steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English