Kathryn Dunleavy, LPCC - Therapist in Minnesota

About Kathryn

Kathryn Dunleavy is an LPCC with 23 years of experience in mental health care. She draws on a variety of approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and life changes. Kathryn aims to build trust through a nonjudgmental attitude and steady support.

She works by listening closely and helping people find practical next steps they can try between sessions. Her background includes work across many care settings, from inpatient and partial programs to outpatient and community services.

Background and approach

Kathryn has supported people in crisis residential settings and in co-occurring mental health and substance use recovery programs. That broad experience gives her practical perspective on recovery and coping. In sessions she uses client-centered techniques to focus on the person’s goals and strengths.

She also draws from emotionally-focused therapy to address painful feelings, motivational interviewing to support change, and mindfulness to help calm racing thoughts. Kathryn keeps explanations plain and offers concrete tools that people can use right away. Common concerns she addresses include grief, relationship strain, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.

She also attends to issues such as attachment, communication problems, codependency, divorce and separation, and blended family challenges. Conversations include both short-term problem solving and longer-term work when needed. Sessions are conducted in English and take place online.

Kathryn encourages a steady, compassionate pace and helps people practice new ways of coping with shame, loss, and isolation. She invites those ready to try therapy to take a first step and see if the fit feels right.

How Kathryn’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy

Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person rather than a strict plan. Kathryn listens for what matters most and helps shape goals from the client’s priorities, which can be easier to work on when sessions fit into a busy schedule.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on understanding and shifting strong emotions that keep people stuck. Online sessions allow for focused emotional work and can help people practice new ways of connecting and responding in their daily lives.

Mindfulness therapy teaches simple ways to notice thoughts and body sensations without judgment. These short practices are easy to use between sessions and translate well to phone, video, or text check-ins.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kathryn will discuss options with each person and adjust methods based on goals, comfort, and what proves most helpful. She aims to tailor the mix of strategies rather than insist on a single method.

Online therapy offers flexibility for people balancing work, family, and medical appointments. Video calls let for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions remove travel barriers, and live chat or text messaging support brief check-ins or written reflections. This range of formats helps keep continuity of care when life gets busy and makes it easier to integrate practice between sessions.

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.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)

Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.

Mindfulness Therapy

Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Kathryn commonly address?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and coping with life changes. Other areas include intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, self esteem, and compassion fatigue.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her approach is client-centered and strengths-based with practical tools. She mixes emotionally-focused work, motivational interviewing, narrative elements, and mindfulness to meet immediate needs and longer-term goals.

How long has she worked in mental health?

She brings 23 years of clinical experience across inpatient, partial, outpatient, community, crisis residential, and co-occurring recovery settings.

Where is Kathryn licensed and based?

She is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, MN LPCC 79, practicing from Minnesota.

Which languages are used in sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can she work with international clients?

International clients are not accepted; sessions are provided to clients within the regions she supports.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.

How does payment and scheduling work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Grief

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 23 years
Licensed: Minnesota
Languages: English

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