- Years in practice
- 20
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California, Utah
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Relationship issues
About Kathleen
Dr. Kathleen Bailey is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, grief, and trauma. She offers straightforward support for sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, career transitions, and life changes.
Dr. Bailey brings two decades of clinical experience and a practical, respectful style to sessions. Her manner is warm and interactive.
She listens closely and adapts conversations to each person's needs.
Background and approach
She avoids stigmatizing labels and focuses on steps people can try between sessions. Dr. Bailey draws on a range of practices when forming a plan with clients.
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also works from attachment ideas to strengthen close connections and from emotionally-focused methods to help people name and process strong feelings. She has worked extensively with substance-related concerns and longstanding mood issues, and she supports people dealing with grief, trauma, and complicated relationship patterns.
Her background includes work with spiritual practices and traditions, and she brings that context into care when it fits a person's needs. Sessions are shaped around practical goals. Dr.
Bailey helps set realistic steps, practices to try at home, and ways to track progress. Her Utah practice aims to help people feel steadier, more connected, and better able to handle daily pressures.
What Kathleen works with
Everything Kathleen lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Kathleen helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- LGBT
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- First responder issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
Approaches Kathleen lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds affect current relationships and helps people change repeated patterns of closeness and distance. This can be useful for intimacy concerns, communication problems, and attachment issues.Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and offers clear practices to change them. It often helps with anxiety, sleep problems, mood concerns, and coping with life transitions.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then tailor the plan as progress is tracked. Clients and therapist decide together which techniques to try and when to adjust course.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care easier to fit into a busy life. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and body language, phone can be a simpler option with lower bandwidth, and messaging lets people check in between appointments or use shorter, focused exchanges. These options make therapy more flexible and accessible for different schedules and needs.
Questions people ask about Kathleen
What concerns does she help with?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, career transitions, bipolar and depression, and compassion fatigue.
How would you describe her therapeutic approach?
The style is warm and interactive with practical steps. She blends client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral tools and attachment- and emotion-focused work.
What is her clinical background?
She has 20 years of clinical experience and a long history working with substance-related concerns, mood disorders, trauma, and grief.
Where is she licensed and located?
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist with Utah and California LMFT credentials and practices from Utah.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What formats are available for sessions?
Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with this therapist?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to therapist availability.
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