Kathleen Hauburger, LCSW

Kathleen Hauburger is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Connecticut with 7 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, navigate addictions, address trauma and abuse, and resolve family and parenting challenges. Her work also includes support for grief, compassion fatigue, and a range of life transitions.

Kathleen creates an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without fear of judgment. She collaborates with clients to identify priorities and build practical coping skills, aiming to support and empower each person as they take steps toward a more fulfilling life. Kathleen’s experience includes working with attachment and caregiver issues, communication and control concerns, domestic violence, substance-related struggles, and perinatal and women’s health matters. She offers guidance for obsessive behaviors, panic symptoms, and social anxiety while supporting smoking or vaping cessation when needed.

As a Connecticut LCSW, Kathleen brings clinical training and real-world experience to her practice, helping individuals and families find sustainable ways to cope and grow through challenging times.

Approaches for Online Therapeutic Support

Kathleen draws from Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how early relational patterns influence current bonds and emotional responses; this approach can help with relationship difficulties, caregiver stress, and attachment concerns by focusing on connection and relational repair. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which identifies unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to manage anxiety, panic symptoms, obsessive patterns, and coping with life changes. In addition, Trauma-Focused Therapy is used when past traumatic events are central to a client's struggles, offering targeted techniques to process and reduce the impact of traumatic memories while building safety and stabilization skills.

Finding the best approach is part of the therapeutic process. Kathleen works collaboratively with each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting methods over time so the plan fits the individual rather than forcing a single model.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to attend sessions around work, caregiving, or mobility limits and allow licensed professionals to deliver consistent therapeutic support even when in-person visits are not convenient.