About Kathy
Kathy Rubendall is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and addiction. She brings three decades of experience and a steady, compassionate manner to each conversation. Kathy writes plainly, listens carefully, and focuses on practical steps people can use at home and at work.
She follows a client-centered style that keeps individual goals at the center of sessions. Kathy blends cognitive behavioral ideas with humanistic listening and solution-focused problem solving.
Background and approach
The aim is to find simple, doable strategies that fit a person's life and values. Kathy has worked with people facing bipolar disorder, trauma, and attachment challenges related to adoption. She also supports those navigating career changes, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and body image concerns.
Her experience includes helping people with eating and sleeping issues and with addictions, including drug and alcohol concerns. Sessions are described by Kathy as warm and interactive. She emphasizes mutual respect and acceptance while helping people set clear goals.
Expect a mix of talk, practical exercises, and short-term plans to test what helps. Her practice draws on problem solving, motivational interviewing, and skills-based tools when appropriate. Kathy aims to make therapy manageable and relevant so people can use what they learn between sessions.
She welcomes clients who want straightforward support for real-life problems.
How Kathy’s Approaches Work Online
Kathy often uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to guide online work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on active listening and building a trusting connection so people can speak openly about their concerns; it helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms, manage mood swings, or change unhelpful routines.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kathy will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and daily life, then recommend approaches to try. She treats therapy as a collaboration and adjusts methods based on what helps most in practice.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people talk face-to-face and use visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a short check-in during a break. Live chat and text messaging can help with brief updates, coaching between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English