Kathleen "Kathy" Harvey, LCSW
Experienced LCSW helping manage anger and life stress
Book with KathleenWorks with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Coping with life changes
How Kathleen works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Years in practice
- 25
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Kathleen
Kathleen "Kathy" Harvey is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people with stress, anxiety, anger, addiction, and life transitions. She works with individuals who are struggling with relationship friction, sleep problems, grief, or low self-esteem. Kathy aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people who feel overwhelmed.
In sessions she focuses on clear goals and usable skills. She helps people improve communication, reduce reactivity, and manage impulses.
Background and approach
Kathy also guides those coping with caregiving strain, codependency, or recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She listens first, then offers strategies that fit daily life.
Kathy draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral methods and client-centered conversations to help people reframe thoughts and try new behaviors. She also uses motivational interviewing to support readiness for change and trauma-focused work when past injury is a factor. These tools are woven into practical plans for sleep, anger management, and coping during major life events.
Kathy helps people take one manageable step at a time. Based in New Jersey, she brings long experience to a wide range of concerns including career questions, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and women’s issues. Sessions aim to build clearer thinking, steadier emotions, and healthier patterns people can use outside the therapy room.
What Kathleen works with
Everything Kathleen lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Kathleen's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Kathleen lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Working with proven approaches online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflecting concerns and helping clarify goals, which can be useful for issues like low self-esteem, life transitions, or relationship problems.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches practical skills for managing anxiety, anger, sleep problems, and depression by testing unhelpful thoughts and practicing new responses.
Motivational interviewing helps people find internal reasons to change. It is often used when someone is dealing with addictions, process behaviors, or mixed feelings about change and supports gradual, self-directed steps forward.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels doable, then shape a plan together. That collaborative process helps pick the methods that fit the person's situation and pace.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules and different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a shorter check-in option, and text messaging supports ongoing brief contact between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing daily life.
Questions people ask about Kathleen
What concerns does she address?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, anger, addiction, grief, sleep problems, relationship and parenting concerns, and a wide range of related issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
The style is collaborative and practical, focusing on clear goals, skill building, and steps people can use in daily life.
What is her background and experience?
She is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of clinical experience helping people through life changes and recovery challenges.
Where does she practice and what credential does she hold?
She practices in New Jersey and holds the LCSW credential issued in that state.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin therapy with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on the therapist's listed availability.