About Kathlena
Kathlena Reed uses practical, evidence-based therapies to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and mood concerns. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and she draws on six years of experience supporting people through difficult life moments. Her work focuses on clear, step-by-step strategies that people can use between sessions.
She blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to change unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck about changing behaviors like substance use.
Background and approach
She has a background in addiction and mental health treatment and has spent significant time treating trauma and co-occurring conditions. That experience shapes how she plans care and how she talks about relapse, setbacks, and recovery. Clients can expect straightforward conversations about goals and progress.
Kathlena pays attention to mood disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, postpartum depression, and seasonal affective disorder. She also addresses challenges tied to parenting, impulsivity, guilt and shame, and struggles with self-love and life purpose. In sessions she focuses on practical tools - emotion regulation, behavioral experiments, and problem-solving steps that fit daily life.
Her approach aims to help people notice small changes, build momentum, and reduce the chaos that symptoms cause. She works from Florida and conducts therapy in English.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with behavior. It helps with anxiety, depression, mood swings, and everyday problems by offering concrete exercises and homework that can be practiced between sessions.DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. It is useful for intense emotions, impulsivity, and patterns of reacting that cause instability, and it includes skills people can try in real time during phone or chat check-ins.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match goals, strengths, and preferences. That may mean combining CBT skill practice with DBT techniques or using Motivational Interviewing to support behavior change when needed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy schedules. Video is good for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone can be less bandwidth dependent, chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people access consistent care while keeping it practical and flexible.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English