- Strengths focused
- Skill building
- Calm and direct
About Kathy
Dr. Kathy Cox is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with three decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and self-esteem concerns. She focuses on building a trusting connection and figuring out what each person needs. Her style centers on listening, finding strengths, and supporting steady change.
Dr. Cox draws on straightforward, practical methods in sessions. She uses client-centered work to follow what matters to the person and cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior. Dialectical behavior and mindfulness tools are used when people need help with strong emotions or staying present and balanced.
Before moving into semi-retirement she worked as a social work professor and published two books, one on practice and one on self-care for counselors. That teaching background informs her clear, step-by-step approach to helping people learn skills they can use in daily life.
Her experience includes long-term work with adults facing grief, relationship strain, compassion fatigue, addiction concerns, and life transitions. She also supports people dealing with adoption or foster care issues, caregiving stress, and social anxiety. Her practice in California draws on 30 years of clinical work and classroom teaching.
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Dr. Cox aims to help people notice small shifts that add up to better coping and increased confidence. She invites curiosity, offers practical tools, and helps people set manageable steps toward their goals.
Dr. Cox draws on straightforward, practical methods in sessions. She uses client-centered work to follow what matters to the person and cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior. Dialectical behavior and mindfulness tools are used when people need help with strong emotions or staying present and balanced.
Before moving into semi-retirement she worked as a social work professor and published two books, one on practice and one on self-care for counselors. That teaching background informs her clear, step-by-step approach to helping people learn skills they can use in daily life.
Her experience includes long-term work with adults facing grief, relationship strain, compassion fatigue, addiction concerns, and life transitions. She also supports people dealing with adoption or foster care issues, caregiving stress, and social anxiety. Her practice in California draws on 30 years of clinical work and classroom teaching.
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Dr. Cox aims to help people notice small shifts that add up to better coping and increased confidence. She invites curiosity, offers practical tools, and helps people set manageable steps toward their goals.