- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Journal-based tools
About Kathleen
Kathleen Adams is a Colorado Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 32 years of experience working with adults. She lists stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, grief, relationship concerns, life transitions, and women's issues among the concerns she addresses. Her practice emphasizes helping people notice and change patterns that come from earlier family experiences, including family of origin issues.
She blends a humanistic, client-centered stance with cognitive-behavioral and solution-focused techniques. That mix aims to help people identify core strengths and values and turn them into practical steps. Sessions often include written exercises and journal-based work that support insight and planning.
Kathleen uses journaling as a regular therapeutic tool. She defines journal therapy as purposeful, life-based writing to promote healing and clearer decision-making. She has worked with journal methods since 1985 and has written books about the approach, including Journal to the Self and Journal Therapy for Calming Anxiety.
In sessions she supports people working on communication problems, caregiver stress, codependency, career and workplace issues, and coping with major life changes. She also lists mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, intimacy-related issues, and compassion fatigue among her clinical focuses. Her approach aims to move from insight to concrete changes people can use day to day.
She has combined clinical work with teaching and writing throughout her career. Her experience includes private practice and authoring multiple books on journal therapy and related methods.
How her approaches translate to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what the client says to help them clarify values and goals. Online sessions can use this approach to map recurring family patterns and identify personal priorities in short, conversational work.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In remote sessions CBT often uses clear, step-by-step techniques and homework assignments to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits, useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management.
Mindfulness therapy trains attention and awareness of present-moment experience. Practicing simple attention exercises during an online appointment can help reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Kathleen will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative plan can include journaling or short behavioral experiments alongside talk work.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Ask about formats that fit your schedule and routine; remote sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into work breaks, reduce travel time, or use a shorter check-in when needed. Licensed professionals often pair session work with written exercises that you can do between meetings to keep progress moving.
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Experience
32+ years
Listed in
Colorado
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of issues does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, grief, relationship concerns, life transitions, and related topics such as caregiver stress and workplace problems.
What is her general therapeutic style?
She combines a client-centered, humanistic approach with cognitive-behavioral and solution-focused methods to help people discover strengths and make practical changes.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 32 years of experience as a counselor, working in private practice and as a teacher and author over that time.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Colorado Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and her practice is located in Colorado.
Does she work in other languages or with international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not accepting international clients.
What session formats are used?
The original biography does not list specific session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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