About Kitty
Kitty Bartley is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who has practiced in Florida for two decades. She came to counseling after personal experience with therapy and a prior career as a social worker in Ohio. Kitty focuses on giving people practical tools they can use long after sessions end.
Kitty helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. She also works with concerns such as addiction, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, anger, career stress, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Kitty lists attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and bipolar among the issues she addresses. Her approach is straightforward and skills-focused. Sessions often include ways to notice and change unhelpful thinking, build coping skills, and develop routines that support daily functioning.
She uses a mix of methods to match what each person needs. People can expect a practical orientation in sessions. Kitty aims to share techniques that help reframe negative self-talk and reinforce healthier habits.
She describes this as helping to "reprogram the brain" so healthier patterns take root. Kitty’s background in social work informs a compassionate, down-to-earth style. She emphasizes coaching alongside therapeutic conversations to help people move forward in tangible ways.
Her practice is based in Florida and she conducts sessions in English.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) invites people to clarify their values and take small actions that move them toward a meaningful life while learning simple ways to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments to reduce anxiety and depression. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens closely and follows the person's pace to build understanding and confidence.The therapist treats finding the right approach as a shared process. Together they will discuss goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. This collaborative stance aims to match techniques to each person's needs and preferences rather than using a single fixed method.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls provide a face-to-face feel for in-depth work, phone sessions can be handy when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging works well for quick check-ins or between-session support. These options make it easier to schedule around work, school, or caregiving, and let people use the format that fits their day-to-day life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English