About Kathleen
Kathleen Hove is a licensed clinical social worker who combines practical techniques with a warm, down-to-earth approach. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, trauma, depression, and the exhaustion that comes from caregiving. Conversations are direct but kind, aimed at easing immediate distress and building day-to-day coping skills.
She brings ten years of mental health experience from work across different settings. That background includes supporting people through fear-based symptoms, domestic violence, and post-traumatic stress.
Background and approach
Kathleen emphasizes helping clients feel safer inside themselves and more steady in daily life. Her sessions blend approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing when appropriate. She prioritizes collaboration and treats each person as the expert on their life.
This helps shape a plan that fits realistic goals and routines. Clients can expect a non-judgmental tone, empathy, and occasional lightness when appropriate. Kathleen aims to make sessions practical, focusing on tools that are useful between meetings.
She often works on sleep habits, parenting stress, relationship strain, self-esteem, and motivation. Background matters to how she responds, so Kathleen draws on a range of methods rather than a single technique. She explains options plainly and adjusts the work as needs change.
The result is a steady, patient process focused on small, meaningful steps forward.
Therapeutic approaches applied to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions that move someone toward a life they care about, and it can help with anxiety and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy breaks problems into thoughts, behaviors, and feelings and then tests new ways of thinking and acting to reduce distress. It is useful for worry, sleep problems, and depression. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a method used for processing traumatic memories and reducing their emotional impact when trauma has a strong hold on daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk through options and decide together what fits best for the person’s goals and circumstances. That collaborative process often blends more than one method over time to match changing needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let the conversation feel closest to an in-person visit. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to touch base between sessions or fit support around a busy schedule. These formats help people keep continuity with therapy and apply new skills in day-to-day life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, Colorado, Arkansas
- Languages
- English