About Kathleen
Kathleen Martello is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with a calm, empathetic style. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make therapy feel approachable. Kathleen focuses on helping people who are dealing with overwhelm, low self-esteem, grief, mood changes, and stress.
She draws on ten years of clinical experience and uses clear, practical methods in sessions. Kathleen often combines cognitive behavioral ideas with person-centered listening to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and practice new skills.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people name their values and take small steps toward them. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Kathleen listens for patterns connected to past experiences, then works with clients to test new ways of coping.
She offers coaching-style guidance when people want concrete steps for work, parenting, or rebuilding after loss. Her background includes work with trauma, domestic violence recovery, and mood disorders. Kathleen trained at the graduate level and has applied clinical methods across a range of concerns like anxiety, depression, ADHD, and complicated relationship issues.
Therapy with Kathleen is collaborative. She helps people set short-term goals and practical strategies they can use between sessions. For Spanish speakers she offers services in Spanish to make care easier to access.
Approaches that guide online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, manageable steps toward those values even when emotions are strong. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and low mood when action feels difficult. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and creating a trusting, nonjudgmental space so people can explore feelings and choices at their own pace. This approach supports self-understanding and builds confidence in decision making. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which helps with anxiety, depression, and everyday stress. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kathleen will discuss goals and preferences and then suggest ways to combine methods so therapy fits the person's needs. The plan is collaborative and can be adjusted as progress and priorities change. Online formats offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let people connect face to face for deeper conversations while phone sessions can work better when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide quick ways to share updates, practice skills between sessions, or check in on a difficult day. These options make it easier to maintain consistent care and to use the kind of contact that best fits a person’s routine and comfort level.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York, Pennsylvania, California
- Languages
- English, Spanish