Dr. Kathleen "Kathy" Meeks, LMFT
Relationship-focused LMFT helping with trauma and stress
About Kathleen
Dr. Kathleen "Kathy" Meeks works from a therapist-centered, relational approach that aims to strengthen connection and emotional safety.
Background and approach
She uses methods that help people understand patterns in relationships and in themselves. Kathy is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in Florida and brings 13 years of experience to sessions.
She focuses on relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, depression, anxiety, grief, parenting concerns, and stress. People also turn to her for help with self-esteem, career transitions, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
Her practice includes additional attention to attachment struggles, blended family challenges, body image, caregiver stress, and communication problems. Kathy combines several evidence-based approaches to fit each person’s needs.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take actions that match them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps shift unhelpful thinking and behavior, while Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for emotional regulation and distress tolerance.
Her sessions aim to be practical and collaborative. Kathy listens for the patterns that keep causing pain and helps people try small, doable steps that change those patterns.
She will suggest coordinating care with medical specialists when concerns fall outside therapy. Dr.
Meeks offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to connect. Sessions are available in English and she accepts international clients.
Getting started involves completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.
Approach-driven care through online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people name their values and take actions that match those values. It’s useful for anxiety, depression, and people facing life transitions who want clearer direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills for managing intense feelings and relationship struggles.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and recommend methods that fit. That recommendation can change as progress is made, and clients take an active role in deciding what feels most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to stay connected. Video calls let people read nonverbal cues and work in real time. Phone sessions can be simpler when someone needs lower bandwidth or a quicker check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing support between sessions and fit into busy schedules or different time zones. These options make it easier to maintain consistent care while balancing work, family, and travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English