Kathryn Kirkland-Franco , LPC

Kathryn Kirkland-Franco is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 30 years of experience. She uses a blend of practical therapies to help people move through hard moments and make steady changes. Her manner is calm and reassuring, and she focuses on building a trusting relationship with each person.

Kathryn draws from client-centered work that keeps the person’s goals at the center of sessions. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new actions. Attachment-based ideas guide conversations about closeness, safety, and how early relationships affect current patterns.

She helps people facing relationship strain, grief, parenting stress, career shifts, and life transitions. Other common concerns she works with include anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem, sleep problems, and compassion fatigue. Kathryn also supports people coping with chronic illness, caregiving stress, adoption and foster care issues, and body image or attachment concerns.

Sessions aim to be straightforward and goal-focused. Kathryn listens, reflects, and offers practical strategies that match each person’s situation. She encourages small, steady steps and checks progress as work continues.

Kathryn provides care in English from her Texas practice. Her approach is flexible and collaborative, tailored to what each person says they need. If someone prefers a calm, person-focused therapist who also uses structured tools, Kathryn may be a good match.

Approaches that translate to online care

Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand patterns in close relationships and how those patterns affect current behavior and emotions. Online sessions can include conversations that clarify attachment needs and practice new ways of connecting or setting boundaries. Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s experience and goals first, with the therapist following the person’s lead and reflecting what matters most. This approach works well online because it centers listening, making it possible to focus on what the client wants to address. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying specific, practical changes in behavior. CBT tools such as thought records, behavior experiments, and brief homework are simple to use in video or text formats and help track progress over time.

Kathryn approaches treatment collaboratively and will work with each person to find the best fit. She talks through goals, explains different methods, and adjusts the plan based on what works. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process rather than a one-time decision.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and visual connection, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging lets someone write between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy life and to continue work even when schedules or locations change.