Kathleen Nealon, LCSW

Kathleen Nealon is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 12 years of clinical experience who accompanies people through difficult periods of life. She centers attentive listening and a supportive presence, working to understand each person’s situation so she can empower them toward improved well-being. Kathleen tailors her approach to the needs, preferences, and personality of each individual and draws from a range of evidence-informed methods, including psychodynamic therapy, systems approaches, solution-focused work, cognitive behavioral strategies, and motivational interviewing. Her practice emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and is both strength-based and trauma-informed.

Kathleen has worked with people across the lifespan and from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. Her experience includes supporting young mothers, assisting people displaced to the streets of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, working with women, children, and young adults in transitional housing, aiding individuals in various stages of addiction recovery, and providing care to hospice patients and their families. She has lived and worked cross-culturally, including five years in Haiti, and holds an undergraduate degree in special education that informs her work with people who learn or process information differently.

She commonly supports concerns such as trauma and abuse, grief and loss, life transitions, addiction recovery, and challenges related to learning differences and neurodiversity. Kathleen provides services in English and Haitian Creole and brings a compassionate, patient-centered style to therapy. She is not currently accepting new clients.