Linda "Kathleen" Brown, LCSW

Linda "Kathleen" Brown is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 26 years of experience helping adults and families navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and a range of mood and behavioral concerns. She acknowledges how difficult the first step toward change can be and affirms the courage it takes to invest in emotional well-being. A graduate of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University, she has worked across settings including private practice, inpatient hospitalization, residential treatment, and telephone crisis care, offering individual, group, and family therapy along the way.

Her clinical background includes work with anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, abuse and trauma, grief, and related challenges such as eating concerns, parenting difficulties, workplace stress, and issues around adoption and foster care. She also provides supervision to emerging mental health professionals who are completing academic training or pursuing state licensure. Her approach blends evidence-based methods with a strengths-oriented perspective, and she adapts treatment to fit each person's goals and circumstances.

Known for a collaborative, respectful style, Linda "Kathleen" Brown helps clients set realistic, attainable goals and supports them in developing practical skills for coping and growth. She welcomes the opportunity to work together toward meaningful, sustainable change.

Approaches and Online Care with a Licensed LCSW

Linda "Kathleen" Brown draws from Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on building a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship and helping individuals explore their values and choices - a helpful approach for improving self-esteem, coping with life changes, and addressing relationship or identity concerns. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a practical method that looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood symptoms, and break unhelpful patterns. Additionally, Solution-Focused Therapy helps clients set clear goals and identify strengths and resources to create immediate, attainable steps forward.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Linda "Kathleen" Brown works with each person to understand their needs, goals, and preferences and tailors the combination of methods to fit the situation and pace that feels right.

Online therapy offers flexibility to access care by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit appointments into busy schedules and to continue work across life transitions. These options support ongoing progress while allowing clients to engage in ways that feel most comfortable and practical for them.