Kathryn Kirkland-Franco, LPC

Kathryn Kirkland-Franco is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 30 years of experience. She works with adults facing relationship stress, grief, parenting challenges, career shifts, anxiety, depression, and codependency patterns. Kathryn often draws on approaches that help people notice how they respond to others and practice different choices.

Her style centers on listening closely and building a steady working relationship. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow what matters most to the person in the room. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and try practical alternatives.

Kathryn integrates Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused ideas when people are struggling with closeness, trust, or repeated patterns in relationships. Mindfulness techniques are used to reduce reactivity and improve focus when stress, anger, or sleep problems arise. She mentions tapping into clients' own strengths rather than prescribing one single solution.

Over three decades she has helped people manage life changes such as illness, caregiving, adoption and foster care issues, and work stress. She also supports clients dealing with trauma, abuse, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and body image concerns. Her background includes work with aging and geriatric issues and chronic medical conditions.

Sessions are practical and conversational. Kathryn aims to help people build clearer boundaries, handle family communication problems, and find steady ways to cope with loss or ongoing stress. To begin, she asks people to reflect on what they most want to change and what small steps feel doable now.

How Kathryn applies therapies online