About Kathey
Rev. Kathey Wilborn is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in California with 34 years of experience. She has worked across many settings, including Christian counseling, and focuses on helping people facing relationship strain, family conflict, trauma, and low self-esteem.
She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in her work. She tailors conversations and treatment plans to each person’s situation. Sessions are meant to help people build confidence, find direction, and cope with life changes.
Background and approach
Practical steps and honest conversation are central to her approach. Her background includes long-term practice in California, which informs a steady, calm style in sessions. She often supports people dealing with divorce, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and post-traumatic stress.
She also addresses concerns about body image, guilt, forgiveness, and workplace strain. Kathey speaks English and brings nearly three and a half decades of experience to each meeting. She aims to create a space where people can speak frankly about hurts, hopes, and goals.
She invites clients to set the pace and priorities for their work together. Her work often helps people facing midlife questions, money worries, pregnancy and childbirth transitions, and social anxiety. She believes taking the first step toward change takes courage and offers steady support through the process.
Evidence-based approaches and online support
Rev. Kathey Wilborn uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people address concrete problems and painful past events. One common approach focuses on processing trauma and post-traumatic stress through guided conversation and coping skills work to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Another approach centers on strengthening relationships and communication skills so people can set boundaries, rebuild trust, and manage conflict more effectively.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That collaboration includes checking in and adjusting the plan as progress is made or new issues emerge.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper connection is helpful. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, coping prompts, or notes between longer sessions. These options let people fit care around work, family, and other commitments while keeping the therapeutic process consistent and accessible.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English