About Kathlene
Kathlene Pendleton is a licensed professional counselor with eight years of experience helping people in Texas manage emotional challenges. She focuses on clear, practical steps for issues like anxiety, depression, stress, grief, and addiction. Her work is grounded in real-world coping skills rather than jargon.
She offers a steady, compassionate presence for people ready to make changes. Clients usually find she keeps sessions collaborative and focused on immediate needs. She listens closely, helps identify small goals, and practices skills together in sessions.
Background and approach
That might mean learning ways to calm intense emotions, building routines to manage mood swings, or finding new communication habits that reduce conflict. Kathlene uses a mix of approaches to fit each person’s situation. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and change unhelpful thoughts.
She also uses mindfulness and acceptance-based ideas to reduce avoidance and increase flexibility. She works with concerns including relationship strain, family stress, parenting pressures, intimacy issues, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, eating and body-image issues, and career-related stress.
Kathlene includes practical problem solving around money, caregiving burden, guilt, and forgiveness when relevant. Sessions are offered in English and use video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. The subscription-based model lets clients schedule and pause care as needed.
To begin, people complete a brief matching questionnaire and choose a time that fits their schedule.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on identifying personal values and taking actions that match what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers specific skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening relationships.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they decide which techniques to try first and adjust the plan as needed based on progress and feedback.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week. Video allows face-to-face connection for skills practice, phone calls work when bandwidth is low, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging is useful for brief updates or between-session coaching. These formats help people keep continuity of care and access support from wherever they are in Texas.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English