Kathleen Sutton
Support for parents and family challenges
- Credentials
- LCPC, LPC
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- Colorado, Nevada, Washington
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kathleen
Kathleen Sutton is a licensed counselor who focuses on family and parenting concerns and related life stresses. She offers a calm, respectful presence and aims to help parents and family members find clearer footing during hard transitions. Her approach is down-to-earth and centered on practical steps that feel useful at home.
Kathleen brings 11 years of clinical experience and prior years as a parenting coach and educator. She has practiced in settings such as residential treatment centers, outpatient group practice, correctional facilities, assisted living, and a community art therapy collective.
Background and approach
Her training includes LCPC and LPC licensure. Kathleen works in Nevada and provides services in English. In sessions she draws on several evidence-informed methods, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and client-centered techniques.
She also uses mindfulness, trauma-informed talk, somatic work, and expressive arts when helpful. These tools are chosen to match each person's needs rather than applied rigidly. Kathleen emphasizes building a real therapeutic relationship first.
She focuses on helping people name their strengths, learn emotion regulation skills, and practice self-care steps they can use between sessions. Psychoeducation is offered when appropriate to support those changes. Her listed specialties include parenting, self esteem, stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, addictions, sleep and eating issues, mood disorders, and family problems.
Sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging, with a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is about clarifying values and taking small, value-driven actions even when thoughts and feelings are hard. It helps when stress or worry gets in the way of parenting and daily responsibilities. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape patterns today and helps people notice and change repeating interaction styles that affect family life.Kathleen approaches treatment as a collaboration. She will listen first, then suggest approaches that fit your goals and preferences. Together you decide whether ACT, attachment work, CBT, mindfulness, or somatic and art-based methods feel most useful for the issue at hand.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy family schedules. These options let people check in between appointments, try brief coaching-style messages, or meet face-to-face on video when deeper conversation or exercises are needed. The variety helps maintain continuity of care and gives flexible ways to practice new skills at home.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Nevada, Washington
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Kathleen
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point