Kathleen Walker, LPC

Pennsylvania · 7 years in practice

Kathleen Walker is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who uses an existential approach alongside practical therapies to help people facing hard moments.

License and registration

LPC, Pennsylvania: PC013148 · expires February 2027
NPI: 1326716572 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 7
Languages: English

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About Kathleen

Kathleen Walker is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who uses an existential approach alongside practical therapies to help people facing hard moments. She emphasizes meaning, choice, and personal values while also using tools that suit the person in front of her. Kathleen speaks plainly and aims to make therapy clear and doable for everyday life.

She changed careers in her thirties and spent about ten years in training and practice before accumulating seven years of hands-on counseling experience.

Background and approach

Much of her work has focused on people struggling with addiction and impulse issues. She has also supported individuals working through trauma, grief, depression, and anxiety. Her style blends evidence-based methods with a client-centered attitude.

She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy when those methods fit a person’s needs. The goal is to meet people where they are and offer tools that actually help in daily life. Sessions often focus on managing stress, building self-esteem, coping with life changes, and addressing relationship or communication problems.

Kathleen also helps with body image, caregiver stress, codependency, and eating-related concerns. She works with anger, guilt, shame, and complicated family-of-origin issues. People can expect a respectful, straightforward approach that balances exploring meaning with hands-on strategies.

Kathleen invites those ready to take steps toward change to begin a conversation about goals and practical next steps.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Kathleen lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Addictions
Self esteem
Depression
Relationship issues
Trauma and abuse
Grief
Eating disorders
Parenting issues
Anger management
Coping with life changes
Compassion fatigue
Body image
Caregiver issues and stress
Co-morbidity
Codependency
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Control issues
Drug and alcohol addiction
Eating and food-related issues
Emptiness
Family of origin issues
Family problems
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Hoarding
Impulsivity
Isolation / loneliness
Life purpose
Midlife crisis
Postpartum depression
Pregnancy and childbirth
Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Self-harm
Self-love
Smoking / vaping cessation
Social anxiety and phobia
Women's issues
Workplace issues

Approaches Kathleen names

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Online support

Existential and Skills-Based Therapy Online

Existential therapy looks at meaning, choice, and personal values to help people navigate questions about purpose and life direction. It can be helpful for those feeling empty, stuck, or facing big life changes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking action toward them while learning to live with hard feelings. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns and teaches practical strategies to change them, which can ease symptoms of anxiety and low mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kathleen will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels useful, then blend existential reflection with evidence-based tools when that makes sense. This is a collaborative process aimed at fitting methods to real-life needs rather than using a single fixed model.

Online therapy offers flexible options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for in-depth work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins and brief coaching, and text-based work can fit into a busy day. These formats make it easier to keep continuity of care and to use therapy around work, family, and life demands.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Kathleen commonly help with?

She works with stress, anxiety, addiction, low self-esteem, depression, relationship issues, trauma and grief. Additional focuses include body image, caregiver stress, codependency, eating and hoarding concerns.

What is her therapeutic style like?

She uses an existential lens to discuss meaning and choice while pairing that with hands-on methods like ACT, CBT, and DBT. The result is a mix of reflective conversation and practical skill building.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has seven years of counseling experience following a career change in her thirties and roughly a decade of combined education and practice leading up to that time.

Where is Kathleen licensed and practicing?

She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a Pennsylvania LPC credential and practices from Pennsylvania.

Which languages are used in sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available online?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.

How does billing and cost work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with Kathleen?

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