About Kathryn
Kathryn (Kathy) McCabe uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and trauma-related concerns. She brings nine years of clinical practice and a down-to-earth style to sessions. Kathy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, practicing in Florida and offering care in English.
Her work blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive tools and client-centered listening. She helps people notice what matters most and then take small steps toward those values.
Background and approach
Sessions may include learning new ways to handle difficult thoughts, practicing calm-focused skills, and clearer communication strategies for strained relationships. Kathy also draws on psychodynamic perspectives to help people understand patterns that show up again and again. That approach can be useful for someone wanting to look at the roots of long-standing habits or relationship cycles.
She combines that with practical exercises so clients leave with both insight and action. She has experience supporting people with a wide range of concerns, including grief, addiction, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, and caregiver stress. Kathy is familiar with intimacy-related issues, body image, and life changes such as divorce or aging.
Her style aims to be straightforward, compassionate, and focused on what will help day to day. To begin, Kathy asks people to share their immediate worries and goals. From there she works collaboratively to build a plan that fits each person’s life.
Her approach is flexible and geared toward steady, manageable progress.
How cognitive and acceptance approaches work online
Kathryn often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify personal values and take small steps toward them while learning to notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing practical changes to reduce anxiety, low mood, and other symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and life demands, and together they will choose tools that fit. That collaboration means plans are adjusted as needs change rather than fixed at the start.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexible options. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat works for quicker check-ins, and text messaging is helpful for brief reflections or homework between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try approaches in real time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English