Kathleen Wakefield
Experienced counselor for life's transitions
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kathleen
Kathleen Wakefield is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of clinical experience in Florida. She focuses on common and intense life challenges like anxiety, depression, stress, grief, and parenting concerns. She also addresses issues related to addiction, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, career stress, and self-esteem.
Kathleen uses a compassionate, straightforward style to help people find practical ways forward. Her practice often includes support around blended family issues and first responder and veteran concerns.
Background and approach
She is familiar with postpartum depression, infidelity, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and prejudice or discrimination‑related stress. Kathleen listens closely and helps people identify steps they can take in day-to-day life. Sessions emphasize building coping skills, managing strong emotions such as anger, and strengthening problem-solving.
She works with clients to rebuild confidence after setbacks and to address relationship patterns that cause distress. The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. In therapy, Kathleen mixes practical strategies with attention to life context.
She helps people organize goals, experiment with changes, and track progress. Her aim is to make therapy usable in real life so clients can apply what they learn outside sessions. Kathleen holds the credential LMHC, which stands for Licensed Mental Health Counselor.
She practices in Florida and conducts sessions in English. Her approach is steady and respectful, designed for people seeking clear tools and steady support during difficult times.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Many evidence-based techniques focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building skills. One common approach teaches practical coping skills for anxiety and depression, such as breathing and planning routines, to reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning. Another focuses on processing difficult experiences like trauma or grief by helping people tell their story in small, manageable steps and learn ways to feel less controlled by those memories.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan so the work fits the client’s needs and pace.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people meet face to face from home, while phone sessions are helpful when video is not possible. Live chat and text-based messaging provide short, flexible ways to check in between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Kathleen
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point