Kaitlyn Cozens, LCSW

Kaitlyn Cozens is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in California who uses practical techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety, and depression. She centers sessions on each person's strengths and goals and aims to make change feel doable and grounded in everyday life.

With five years of professional experience, she brings a straightforward, warm approach to common struggles like low self-esteem, relationship strain, and major life changes. Kaitlyn also supports people dealing with workplace problems, panic attacks, and social anxiety by focusing on steps they can try between sessions.

Her work draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy along with client-centered and solution-focused methods. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, try small experiments, and build on what already works for them. She also uses ideas from Dialectical Behavior Therapy when stronger emotion-regulation skills are needed.

Kaitlyn pays attention to issues that often come up together, such as guilt and shame, impulsivity, isolation, and questions about life purpose. She also has experience supporting people on the autism spectrum with communication and coping challenges.

Sessions are offered in English and conducted online by video, phone, chat, or text messaging. Kaitlyn encourages a collaborative process where the person sets goals and they try practical steps together to reach them.

How CBT and Client-Focused Work Translate Online

CBT helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors through short experiments and practical exercises. It is often used for anxiety, panic, depression, and worries about performance or social situations. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and building on the person's own goals and strengths to guide change.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, when used, brings specific skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and improving relationships. Together these approaches offer tools for emotion regulation, clear problem solving, and steady goal progress. Finding the right mix is a collaborative process; the therapist will work together with each person to choose approaches that match their needs and preferences.

Online work offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins, and text messaging can be used for ongoing reflections and short updates. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep progress moving between meetings.