Kathleen Nealon , LCSW

Kathleen Nealon is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who accompanies people through difficult life chapters with empathy and professional skill. She centers her practice on listening carefully and understanding each person’s unique situation so she can offer steady support and practical guidance toward improved well-being.

Recognizing that one approach does not fit everyone, she tailors interventions to match each individual’s needs, preferences, and personality. She frequently draws from psycho-dynamic, systems, solution-focused, cognitive behavioral, and motivational interviewing techniques, integrating these methods within a strength-based, trauma-informed framework that emphasizes the therapeutic relationship.

Her clinical background includes extensive cross-cultural experience and work with a wide range of populations. She has supported young mothers, people affected by homelessness and disaster recovery, individuals in various stages of addiction recovery, and hospice patients and their families. She lived and worked in Haiti for a total of five years and holds an undergraduate degree in special education, experiences that inform her sensitivity to different learning styles and neurodiversity.

Kathleen works in both English and Haitian Creole and focuses on concerns such as trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, coping with life changes, ADHD, stress, anxiety, addictions, LGBT issues, relationship and family dynamics, intimacy, sleep difficulties, anger, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, and depression. She invites those seeking a compassionate, knowledgeable presence to consider whether her approach might fit their goals for healing and growth.

Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, sleep difficulties, and many everyday challenges by teaching practical skills and strategies to manage symptoms and improve functioning.

Motivational interviewing is a collaborative method that helps people explore ambivalence and strengthen their own motivation for change. It is commonly used in work around addictions, behavior change, and situations where making a next step feels difficult or uncertain.

Solution-focused techniques concentrate on clients’ strengths and small, attainable steps toward goals. This approach can be helpful during life transitions, parenting challenges, and when clients want focused, goal-oriented support.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Kathleen works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress unfolds. Licensed professionals and therapists use this kind of flexibility to tailor care over time.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care, access support from home or while traveling, and choose the ways of communicating that feel most helpful for each individual.