Kathleen Carpentier, LCSW

Kathleen Carpentier is a Florida-based licensed clinical social worker with 22 years of practice. She supports people dealing with depression, addiction, relationship strain, and intimacy concerns. Kathleen has worked with veterans, first responders, and those facing multicultural challenges. She also provides affirming care for people exploring gender identity and non-monogamous relationship structures.

Her approach is warm and practical. Sessions focus on understanding patterns, learning coping skills, and improving day-to-day functioning. She uses evidence-informed methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and reconnect in relationships.

Kathleen pays close attention to trauma history and long-term effects from childhood. She helps people build safety and regain a sense of control at a manageable pace. Work on grief, hospice concerns, or end-of-life issues is paced to each person’s needs.

She also supports people facing career stress, sleeping problems, low self-esteem, hoarding concerns, HIV/AIDS related issues, infidelity, and jealousy. Practical problem solving and skills practice are common parts of sessions.

To start, clients complete a short questionnaire that helps match goals and preferences. Kathleen then works with each person to set clear, achievable steps and to track progress over time.

Approaches that guide online work and healing

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without fighting them and focus on values-driven action. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and getting unstuck when old patterns feel limiting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with depression, sleep problems, and managing difficult emotions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on emotions in close relationships and helps people identify and shift interaction patterns that cause distance or conflict.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kathleen will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That choice is revisited over time as needs change, so therapy stays focused and practical.

Confirm available session options before booking to understand the formats offered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also make it simpler to connect across time zones for international clients. The therapist will discuss what will work best for scheduling, session length, and pacing during the initial matching and first sessions.