About Kathleen
Kathleen Martello is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, grief, and phobias. She brings ten years of counseling experience and offers care in both English and Spanish. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people take practical steps forward.
Kathleen uses several therapeutic tools to address harmful patterns that come from past experiences. She helps clients identify unhelpful beliefs and replace them with more balanced ways of thinking.
Background and approach
She also teaches coping skills for stress, anger, and mood changes so people can handle difficult moments more effectively. She works with people coping with trauma and abuse, including healing after domestic violence and relational harm. Kathleen also supports those facing life transitions, career questions, parenting strain, and issues around attachment or codependency.
She addresses concerns ranging from ADHD and bipolar mood matters to feelings of isolation and low self-esteem. Her approach draws on cognitive behavioral methods alongside client-centered and acceptance-based practices. Kathleen encourages practical problem solving and decision-making work, and she often pairs skill teaching with longer-term reflection on life purpose and values.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and focused on steps the client can try between meetings. Kathleen practices in Pennsylvania and uses a subscription session model that can be canceled at any time. She offers phone sessions, video calls, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions toward them while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help people stuck by fear, avoidance, or life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete steps to change thinking patterns and behaviors that keep problems like anxiety, depression, and phobias going. It often includes homework and practice between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal choices, which can be useful when strong emotions or relationship conflicts cause ongoing problems.Kathleen treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide whether ACT, CBT, DBT, or a blend makes the most sense and then try practical steps to test what works.
Online therapy with Kathleen uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling more flexible. Video lets people work face to face when schedules allow. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging make it simpler to check in between appointments or fit short check-ins into a busy day. These options help people connect from different places and find a rhythm that fits their life.
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What this therapist 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
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