About Kathy
Kathy Duncan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with three decades working in mental health. She practices from Tennessee and has long experience helping people facing depression, anxiety, trauma, substance concerns, and relationship stress. Kathy uses clear, direct conversation to help people make sense of their situation and take practical next steps.
Over her career she has supported people coping with mood disorders, bipolar symptoms, panic, and struggles with anger or low self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also addresses issues such as grief, sleep problems, ADHD, and addiction. Her background includes long-term work with people who have faced trauma and difficult life changes. Kathy blends several approaches in therapy.
She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to look at how thoughts affect feelings and actions. She also uses client-centered methods to keep the work focused on each person’s needs and psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat over time. Sessions tend to be straightforward and conversational.
Kathy aims to create an accepting space where people can talk through painful memories, learn coping skills, and practice new ways of handling conflict and stress. She helps people set practical goals and track progress between visits. People who want a calm, experienced clinician who listens and offers clear strategies may find her style fits well.
Kathy brings steady experience and a practical focus to each session.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early connections shape current relationships and emotional responses; it can help when trust, closeness, or separation feel difficult. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers practical tools for anxiety, depression, and stress. Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s goals and pace at the center, emphasizing listening and validation while people decide what changes matter most.Kathy treats approach selection as a collaborative process. She will help explore which combination of methods fits a person’s concerns, goals, and comfort level. Over a few sessions she and the client can try different techniques and adjust based on what feels most helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice and deeper work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Chat and messaging suit quick updates, brief check-ins, or people who prefer writing to speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while keeping continuity of care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English