Kathleen Eager-Ariz
Compassionate, practical support for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kathleen
Kathleen Eager-Ariz is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people untangle stress and everyday overwhelm. She speaks plainly and meets clients where they are. Her work is aimed at practical changes that improve day-to-day life and restore a sense of balance and purpose.
She often begins by checking routines, emotions, and habits together with the client. That helps identify small shifts that make a real difference. Kathleen believes people have resilience and the ability to grow, even when past trauma or long-standing patterns make change feel impossible.
Background and approach
Her sessions are collaborative and person-centered. She uses techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy - DBT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - ACT, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy - EFT to match what a person needs. Kathleen aims to offer clear options and practical steps rather than vague advice.
Parents and caregivers who are juggling responsibilities may find her approach useful for managing stress, parenting concerns, and relationship strain. She also works with common emotional struggles like anxiety, depression, grief, and issues around self-esteem and motivation. Kathleen brings three years of clinical experience and holds the LPC credential, Texas LPC 89421.
She provides sessions in English and accepts international clients. Her style is warm, direct, and focused on helping clients make changes that matter.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - ACT focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and situations where motivation or direction feels unclear.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT helps identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and then tests practical alternatives. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and mood regulation.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy - EFT centers on understanding emotional responses and improving connection in relationships. It is helpful for intimacy-related issues and communication problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules. These options let people keep therapy while managing work, parenting, or travel, and they make it easier to maintain regular check-ins and practice skills between appointments.
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.
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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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