Kathryn Furfaro , PACFA

Kathryn Furfaro is a PACFA-credentialed counsellor who focuses on helping people find steadiness during hard times. She presents a calm, encouraging attitude and aims to help people notice their strengths and take small steps toward change.

She works with stress and anxiety and supports people dealing with low mood and depression. Kathryn also assists with relationship strains, grief and loss, and concerns about self esteem and motivation. Her approach is grounded in practical conversation and plan-making rather than jargon or long lectures.

Kathryn pays attention to patterns that can leave people feeling stuck. She helps clients untangle issues like attachment and abandonment worries, communication problems, and control struggles. Conversations often look at how past experiences affect present choices, and then focus on doable ways to act differently.

She also supports people facing body image worries, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and life transitions such as divorce or midlife shifts. Work may include setting gentle goals, building small coping skills, and practising new ways to talk to oneself and others.

Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to what each person needs. Kathryn believes change is built from small efforts and steady support, and she helps people take the next practical step toward a more satisfying life.

How Kathryn adapts evidence-based approaches for online care

Many of Kathryn's sessions use evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach looks at how thoughts and behaviours interact - clients learn to spot unhelpful thinking and try small experiments to shift mood and behaviour. This helps with anxiety, low mood and motivation problems.

Another approach emphasises attachment and relationship patterns. It helps people understand how early connections influence current relationships and communication. That work can be useful for people facing relationship strain, abandonment worries or trouble trusting themselves and others.

Choosing the best approach is a joint process. Kathryn will discuss options, listen to what matters most to the client, and adjust methods as goals evolve. She treats each person as the expert in their own life and works together to find practical techniques that fit.

Online sessions give flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and suit brief check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging offer ongoing support between calls and can fit into busy days. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work and family commitments.