Kathlene Pendleton, LPC

Kathlene Pendleton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction concerns, and relationship strain. Kathlene takes a calm, straightforward approach and aims to make therapy understandable and practical for everyday life.

She works collaboratively with each person to identify the problems that matter most. Sessions emphasize building coping skills, managing intense emotions, and improving communication. Kathlene draws on a mix of practical strategies to help clients make changes that fit their daily routines.

Her background includes a range of evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment approaches, and mindfulness practices. Those tools are used to address mood disorders, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, eating concerns, and anger. She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, money worries, guilt, or shame.

Kathlene pays attention to how life roles and pressures affect mental health. She helps with parenting stress, career transitions, ADHD-related challenges, and compassion fatigue. The aim is to strengthen self-esteem and promote healthier patterns over time.

People can expect a warm, nonjudgmental space to talk through painful feelings and plan concrete next steps. Kathlene partners with clients to set achievable goals and adapt strategies as needs change.

Online approaches that focus on change and coping

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to change how they feel. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and managing stress. ACT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, teaches ways to accept difficult feelings while committing to values-driven actions, which can help with grief, chronic stress, and life transitions. DBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, trains concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal interactions, useful for intense emotions and relationship challenges.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. That collaborative process makes it easier to find strategies that fit a client's life and current needs.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls for a fuller conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or movement is a concern, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for quick reflections between sessions. These options let people fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel and keep continuity when schedules change.