Kathleen McNamara, LCSW-R

Kathleen McNamara is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with 18 years of experience. She works with people facing addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and major life changes. Kathleen focuses on listening closely and treating each person with respect and compassion.

She adapts conversations and plans to fit what each person needs. That can mean short-term work to address a specific situation or longer discussions about deeper patterns. Kathleen also helps with issues like self-esteem, depression, and family conflict.

Her practice pays attention to attachment and abandonment concerns, communication and control problems, and challenges that come with blended families or separation. She will talk through how past family patterns affect present relationships and everyday choices.

Therapy sessions can cover trauma and abuse, substance and alcohol struggles, and the feelings of emptiness that sometimes follow loss. Kathleen helps people find manageable steps and clearer ways to cope.

She uses approaches that put the person at the center of the work and also looks at underlying patterns that repeat over time. Kathleen can work with a focused, solution-oriented plan when a quick change is needed. She aims to build a workable path forward that fits each person’s life.

How Kathleen’s approaches guide online therapy

Client-centered therapy focuses on the person and their experience. The therapist listens carefully and follows what matters most to the client, helping people feel heard and understood while they talk through real concerns like intimacy, grief, or addiction.

Psychodynamic therapy looks at patterns that repeat over time. It helps identify how past relationships and family experiences influence current feelings and behaviors, which is useful for attachment, abandonment, or long-standing relationship issues.

Solution-focused therapy is practical and goal-oriented. It supports short-term work that targets a specific situation and helps people make small, useful changes quickly.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Kathleen will work collaboratively to decide which combination of methods fits a person’s goals, needs, and preferences rather than assuming one way is best.

Please confirm the current session options before booking so you know how sessions are offered. Online therapy can make scheduling easier, help fit sessions into a busy day, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. Licensed professionals, including Kathleen, can use focused sessions to work on immediate problems or longer conversations to address deeper patterns, depending on what a person wants to achieve.