Kitty Bartley, LMHC

Kitty Bartley is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with 20 years of overall experience in behavioral health. She started as a social worker in Ohio and moved into counseling after personal experience with therapy showed her how change is possible. Kitty focuses on practical tools people can use day to day to feel and think differently. She aims to help clients replace negative, automatic thoughts with healthier, more useful patterns.

Kitty uses straightforward, skills-based work in sessions. She teaches techniques that people can practice between appointments. That approach includes helping clients build coping strategies for anxiety, stress, and relationship strain. She also supports people dealing with grief, addiction concerns, burnout, and challenges related to identity and intimacy.

Her sessions emphasize collaboration. Clients set goals and Kitty helps map simple steps toward them. She often focuses on changing habits of thought and behavior, what she calls reprogramming the brain’s automatic responses. The work mixes talking with concrete exercises to try at home.

Kitty blends several therapeutic styles to match each person’s needs. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered techniques, and Existential ideas. This mix allows her to focus on values, present-moment awareness, problem solving, and emotional regulation as needed.

People come to Kitty for help with a wide range of concerns including stress, depression, ADHD, bipolar mood patterns, compassion fatigue, and trauma and abuse. She works in English and practices in Florida. To start, clients follow the site's intake steps and schedule appointments based on availability.

How Kitty’s approaches shape online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions aligned with those values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes when someone wants concrete direction about priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world experiments. That makes it a good fit for mood concerns, anxiety, and for anyone who wants step-by-step tools to shift thinking patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships through mindfulness, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation exercises.

Finding the right approach is part of the work and the therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and preferences. Sessions begin with a conversation about what the client wants to change and may combine elements from different approaches. The aim is to build a practical plan that can be used between visits.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know what formats are available. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It can also let people use quieter surroundings or avoid being on camera when that makes the session easier to manage. Licensed professionals tailor pacing and homework to the online setting to keep progress moving.