About Kathleen
Kathleen Eager-Ariz is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or life transitions. She works with individuals who are struggling with relationship troubles, parenting strain, grief, addiction-related concerns, or difficulties with sleep, appetite, and mood. Her approach is straightforward and caring, focused on practical steps that fit each person's life.
Kathleen draws on somatic ideas alongside cognitive and acceptance-based methods to help clients notice how body sensations, thoughts, and values connect.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and person-centered. She listens for patterns that keep people stuck and helps them build new, sustainable habits. Her work includes helping people manage emotional reactivity, attachment wounds, and compulsive behaviors.
She also supports those coping with chronic pain or illness, caregiver stress, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. Kathleen aims to make tangible progress on concerns such as anger, impulsivity, and relationship communication. With three years as a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas (TX LPC 89421), she blends practical tools with gradual skill-building.
Clients can expect a calm, optimistic presence that focuses on achievable change. Kathleen frames therapy as a series of small steps toward clearer priorities and better daily functioning. Sessions explore what currently works and what gets in the way.
Over time, she helps people try new ways of responding to triggers and setbacks. The pace is set by the client's goals and comfort.
How Kathleen’s approaches translate to online therapy
Somatic-informed work helps clients notice body sensations tied to stress and emotion and learn simple grounding or movement practices to shift those patterns; this can support anxiety, chronic pain, and emotional overwhelm in online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small, value-driven actions while accepting difficult feelings, which is useful for depression, anxiety, and life transitions. Client-Centered Therapy creates a warm, nonjudgmental space where the therapist follows the client's lead and helps them make sense of their experience.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist listens to your goals, explores what feels most useful, and adjusts methods over time. Clients often try a blend of strategies early on to see what fits best, and plans are revised as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, continue work during life transitions, and maintain regular check-ins. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, guide somatic practices, and track progress between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English