About Linda
Linda "Kathleen" Brown helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem struggles, and life transitions. She also supports people facing parenting and career pressures, ADHD, bipolar challenges, eating concerns, and anger. Kathleen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW with 26 years of experience and works from Missouri.
Kathleen uses practical, straightforward approaches in sessions. She listens first, then helps people set small, doable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often include learning skills to manage moods, reduce stressful reactions, and break unhelpful thinking patterns. Her style is warm and focused on what will help now. Her background includes work in independent practice, inpatient hospitalization, residential treatment, and telephone crisis care.
She has provided individual and group therapy, and has supervised trainees preparing for state licensure. These settings shaped the hands-on tools she brings to sessions. In therapy she draws on Client-Centered ideas, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Solution-Focused techniques.
That means she pays attention to a person's strengths, helps change thoughts and behaviors that cause distress, and focuses on solutions that fit daily life. Kathleen adapts her methods to fit each person's needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. She invites people to set realistic, achievable goals and to track small changes over time.
Kathleen believes early steps lead to clearer thinking and better coping. She encourages a steady pace and practical progress rather than quick fixes.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening with empathy and helping a person feel understood. In practice this means the therapist reflects what a person says and helps them find their own solutions, which can help with low self-esteem, grief, and feeling stuck.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions teach practical skills to change unhelpful thought patterns and build new coping habits, which is useful for anxiety, panic, and depressive symptoms.
Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on small, concrete steps that move a person toward their goals. The emphasis is on what works now and on building simple strategies that fit a person's routine.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to choose methods that match goals and preferences, and will adjust the plan as needed. This keeps sessions focused and adaptive rather than fixed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or cameras are limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in, do brief problem solving, or maintain momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Arizona
- Languages
- English