Ken McCauley
Practical, strengths-focused mental health counseling
- Credentials
- LCMHC
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- Utah
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ken
Ken McCauley, LCMHC, draws on a practical, person-focused approach to help people manage stress, mood struggles, worry, and parenting concerns. He listens for each person's strengths and uses those strengths to set clear, achievable goals. Ken speaks plainly and treats people with sensitivity and respect while avoiding stigmatizing labels.
Before becoming a licensed counselor he spent many years in human services for the State of Utah working on child abuse, neglect, adoption, and related issues.
Background and approach
He has 14 years of experience as a licensed mental health counselor and decades of broader work supporting people with housing, employment, and daily-life challenges. Ken has worked in outpatient clinics and community mental health settings, including programs that served people dealing with substance use and court-ordered treatment.
He also has experience helping people with grief, trauma, intimacy concerns, ADHD, bipolar symptoms, and parenting struggles. In sessions he actively listens for strengths and works to manage distressing thoughts that get in the way of better choices. He blends cognitive-behavioral ideas with client-centered, attachment-informed, and emotion-focused techniques to set goals and identify practical strategies.
Therapy is framed as a collaborative journey where small steps add up to change. People who want straightforward support with life stressors, relationship and parenting difficulties, recovery from loss, or coping with major changes may find his practical style helpful. He offers care in English and practices in Utah.
How attachment, CBT, and client-centered care work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and closeness. It helps when worries about trust, abandonment, or parenting patterns come up. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts affect mood and behavior and teaches clear strategies to change unhelpful thinking and habits. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's own goals and choices, with the therapist offering listening, reflection, and practical support.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt methods together. That collaborative decision helps keep sessions relevant and focused on achievable steps.
Session format details are not listed in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Many people find online sessions useful because they can fit work, childcare, or transportation limits more easily into their week. Online meetings can allow shorter check-ins, reduce travel time, and make it simpler to continue care through life changes. Licensed professionals aim to match clinical approach and practical scheduling to each person's needs.
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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
Next step
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