About Kathleen
Kathleen Hauburger is a licensed clinical social worker with seven years of practice in Connecticut. She focuses on building a calm, grounded space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, and parenting struggles. Kathleen keeps language direct and practical so results feel useful day to day.
She uses approaches that center relationships and present concerns. Attachment-based work looks at how past bonds shape current reactions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thinking and try concrete alternatives.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and trauma-focused tools are used when needed to reduce reactivity and process difficult memories. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person. Kathleen listens first, then helps set small, manageable goals.
She encourages simple skills that can be used between sessions to ease anxiety, manage cravings, and improve communication with family members. Her experience includes supporting people through major life changes and caregiver strain. She also addresses issues like obsessive thoughts, panic attacks, fertility-related stress, and recovering from domestic violence or substance misuse.
Work often combines coping skills, safety planning, and rebuilding routines. Kathleen explains approaches clearly and adjusts them to fit each person’s needs. She aims to help people feel steadier, more in control, and better able to handle everyday challenges.
Conversations are straightforward, supportive, and focused on practical steps forward.
How Kathleen's approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and helps people rebuild more trusting ways of relating. This often helps with parenting stress, caregiver strain, and communication problems by focusing on patterns that repeat in close relationships.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical tools to reduce anxiety, manage compulsions, and change unhelpful habits through short exercises and step-by-step practice.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to decide whether attachment work, CBT, mindfulness, or trauma-focused tools are most useful for their goals and situation. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps.
Online sessions give flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick skill practice, brief reflections, and ongoing contact between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English