About Kathleen
Kathleen Slee is a licensed clinical social worker who uses a person-centered approach to help people facing major life challenges. She focuses on depression, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Kathleen aims to make conversations straightforward and practical so people feel understood and ready to try new ways of managing stress.
She combines Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques. That means sessions often start with listening closely to what matters most, then trying small, doable changes in thinking and behavior.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and motivational techniques are also used to help people handle intense emotions and stay motivated through change. Her background includes six years of clinical practice in New Mexico, working with issues such as chronic illness, caregiver stress, adoption and foster care concerns, and end-of-life matters. Kathleen also addresses family of origin questions, codependency, and mood disorders.
She brings steady, practical support to complicated situations. Sessions are framed around individual goals. Kathleen helps people sort priorities, build coping skills, and test what works between meetings.
She describes progress as gradual and collaborative rather than quick fixes. Her style is warm and direct. People can expect clear suggestions, reflective listening, and tools to practice outside of sessions.
Kathleen holds the New Mexico LCSW credential and offers services in English to a range of people looking for steady therapeutic guidance.
Therapeutic approaches tailored to online care
Kathleen often blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to address emotional pain and everyday struggles. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s priorities so goals come from the individual. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy provides concrete emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance techniques that are useful for intense moods and relationship stress.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Kathleen will talk with the person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then test methods that fit. She adjusts plans over time so techniques that aren’t helpful are set aside and those that help are expanded.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or work better when hands-free time is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions, get brief coaching, or use written tools when typing feels most comfortable. These options support flexible, ongoing work with licensed professionals and therapists without requiring travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English