Kathleen "Kathy" Harvey
Compassionate guidance for practical change
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kathleen
Kathleen "Kathy" Harvey is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people through stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and life transitions. She talks plainly about problems that keep people stuck and works alongside them to find clearer paths forward. Kathy focuses on practical steps as well as understanding the feelings behind them.
Kathy uses methods that emphasize the client's goals and strengths. She helps people spot unhelpful thoughts, try new behaviors, and set small, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing is part of her toolbox for people facing addiction or ambivalence about change. Her areas of concern include family issues, parenting, relationship problems, caregiver stress, and communication difficulties. She also supports those coping with trauma, bipolar disorder, depression, sleep problems, and loneliness.
Kathy addresses process addictions and drug and alcohol addiction as well. Sessions are offered in English and take place with a licensed LCSW based in New Jersey. Kathy brings experience working with women's issues, LGBT concerns, and people seeking greater self-love and life purpose.
Her approach blends practical skills with emotional insight. Clients can expect a collaborative tone. Kathy explains techniques in simple terms and helps clients practice them between sessions.
The work tends to be focused and goal-oriented while still allowing space to process past wounds.
Therapeutic approaches and working online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding where the person is coming from. The therapist offers empathy and supports clients in finding their own solutions, which is useful for building self-esteem and working through relationship or identity concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions. It teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping during life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust plans together based on what feels most helpful. That collaborative process helps tailor care to each persons needs and preferences.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let conversations feel more like in-person meetings, while phone sessions are useful when video isnt possible. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter, more frequent check-ins and support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily routines and to continue progress when schedules or travel make in-person visits hard.
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.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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