Dr. Kathleen Bailey, LMFT
Experienced therapist focused on body and relationships
About Kathleen
Dr. Kathleen Bailey is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and mood disorders. She works with issues like parenting strain, career transitions, sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue.
Her practice also addresses trauma and abuse, identity and LGBT concerns, and complex topics such as polyamory and infidelity. Her style is warm, interactive, and respectful. She focuses on practical conversation and bodily awareness rather than labels.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to each person's needs and paced to what feels manageable. In therapy she draws on somatic ideas to help clients notice how the body holds stress and emotion. She also uses attachment-based approaches to look at how patterns from the past affect current relationships.
Cognitive-behavioral techniques are added when clients want concrete tools for mood, sleep, or anxiety. Dr. Bailey holds the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist credential, LMFT, and has two decades of experience in behavioral health.
She has worked with people affected by addiction and with those recovering from trauma and relational violence. Her background includes substance abuse counseling and family systems work. She offers a collaborative process that focuses on clear goals and steady progress.
Conversations may include skill practice, reflection on relationship dynamics, and somatic awareness exercises. The aim is to help people feel more present, steady, and able to handle life’s challenges.
How somatic and relationship-focused approaches work online
Somatic work helps people notice how stress and emotion show up in the body. It can involve simple grounding, breath awareness, and tracking physical sensations to reduce anxiety and shift tension patterns. This is useful for trauma, chronic stress, sleep trouble, and emotional overwhelm.Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions. It helps people name repeating patterns, understand emotional triggers, and practice new ways of connecting and setting boundaries. This approach is helpful for intimacy issues, communication problems, and relationship distress.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and comfort with different methods. Together they will try techniques and adjust the plan so it fits the client's needs and pace.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and guided somatic exercises. Phone and text options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to check in between sessions. These formats help people access consistent care from home or work and make ongoing practice and support more manageable.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California, Utah
- Languages
- English