About Kathryn
Kathryn Dunleavy is a licensed professional counselor clinical candidate, LPCC, with over two decades of experience in mental health. She brings practical, down-to-earth care to people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life changes. Kathryn focuses on helping individuals notice what matters and take small, steady steps toward feeling better.
Her background includes work across multiple levels of care, from inpatient and partial programs to outpatient and community settings. She has supported people in crisis residential programs and in co-occurring mental health and substance use recovery services.
Background and approach
This range has shaped a steady, calm approach in sessions. In the therapy room she centers on acceptance and trust. Kathryn uses client-centered methods and emotionally focused work to help people name painful feelings and repair what matters most.
She also draws on mindfulness, narrative techniques, and motivational interviewing to find concrete next steps that fit each person’s life. Sessions are aimed at building self-compassion and resilience. Kathryn often helps people work through family-of-origin concerns, attachment and abandonment issues, communication and commitment struggles, and the emotional impacts of illness or loss.
She also supports those dealing with eating or sleep problems, career stress, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Her style is warm, straightforward, and nonjudgmental. Kathryn emphasizes practical tools alongside emotional processing so people can make changes they can live with.
She encourages clients to try things gently and to expect progress in small, lasting shifts.
How Kathryn’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. The clinician listens closely, reflects what they hear, and helps the person make choices that feel right. This style helps when someone needs a safe, steady space to sort through feelings and decisions.Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and change patterns in close relationships and in how they respond to strong feelings. It is useful for addressing attachment wounds, abandonment fears, and intimacy-related struggles by naming emotions and changing how people connect with themselves and others.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple ways to notice thoughts and bodily sensations without getting swept away by them. These skills support coping with anxiety, stress, sleeping problems, and moments of intense emotion by offering short, practical exercises to use during the day.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kathryn treats the choice of method as collaborative and will help clients decide which approaches fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She often combines techniques so people get both emotional insight and doable steps to try between sessions.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful for a full conversation with visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit counseling into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English