Kathryn Eden, LICSW, LCSW

Kathryn Eden is a licensed clinical social worker with 34 years of professional experience, based in Massachusetts. She holds LICSW and LCSW credentials, which indicate licensure to provide clinical social work services. Kathryn focuses on helping adults and young adults manage stress and anxiety, navigate relationship concerns, address depression, and cope with significant life changes.

Her practice is grounded in a client-centered philosophy that treats each person as the expert of their own story and builds on existing strengths. Kathryn emphasizes collaboration, helping clients increase self-awareness, process difficult emotions, and develop practical skills to meet daily challenges. She has particular experience supporting those transitioning to independent living or adjusting to the demands of college life.

Clinically, Kathryn integrates insight-oriented and supportive methods with mindfulness-based and cognitive behavioral techniques, and she also draws on psychodynamic and solution-focused approaches. She values the human-animal bond and supports the role that pets can play in easing distress, noting that pet-assisted interactions may help reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression for some clients. Kathryn’s work reflects a commitment to enhancing mental well-being while recognizing the connections between emotional and physical health.