Dr. Kathleen Bailey
Therapist for relationship and life stress
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- California, Utah
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kathleen
Dr. Kathleen Bailey is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on relationship and life stresses. She has two decades of experience and aims to make therapy practical and down-to-earth.
Her style is warm, interactive, and respectful, and she avoids stigmatizing labels when helping people. She draws on clinical training and a broad set of tools to match each person’s needs. She supports people dealing with anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, trauma, and intimacy issues, as well as parenting and career concerns.
Background and approach
She also addresses complex topics such as attachment wounds, caregiver stress, blended family challenges, and non-monogamous relationship dynamics. Her work includes attention to sleeping problems, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Her approach blends several established therapies.
She uses cognitive techniques to change unhelpful thinking and attachment-based ideas to understand relationship patterns. She also incorporates elements from emotionally-focused work to help people connect and process strong feelings. Sessions are tailored to the person’s story and goals, not a one-size-fits-all plan.
Dr. Bailey holds an LMFT credential and practices from Utah. She offers straightforward conversation, practical tools, and focused exercises when helpful.
Many people find it useful to try a few methods and then refine what works best for them. She invites those ready to explore change to begin with a short intake and build a plan together. The work emphasizes respect, empathy, and clear next steps rather than jargon or labels.
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and behavior; it helps people spot recurring patterns and build more stable connections in close relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical steps and experiments to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhealthy habits. Emotionally-Focused Therapy aims to help people name and work through strong emotions so they can reach greater closeness and repair with important others.Finding the right method is part of the work. The therapist will meet clients where they are and discuss which approaches make sense for their goals. Together they decide on a plan and adjust it as progress and new needs emerge, keeping the process collaborative and flexible.
Online therapy offers several ways to connect. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions are available when video is not preferred, and live chat or text messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to try different formats until the right rhythm is found.
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.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California, Utah
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Kathleen
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- Stop at any point