Kathryn Fortune-Gallagher

Kathryn Fortune-Gallagher is a licensed social worker with more than three decades of clinical experience. She brings long-term practice in school-based social work and therapy to help people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, and struggles with self-worth. She uses a straightforward, respectful approach in sessions and aims to be dependable and nonjudgmental.

Her background includes years supporting people who have learning differences and intellectual disability, and addressing codependency and addiction concerns. She also offers Christian counseling and has experience with teenage clients. Kathryn identifies solution-focused therapy as her main counseling style and combines that with other approaches when useful.

Sessions tend to emphasize clear goals and practical steps. Kathryn helps people break problems into manageable parts and develop tools they can use between meetings. She works with relationship and family issues from an individual perspective, including blended family challenges, divorce and separation, and communication problems.

She also addresses life transitions such as midlife change, career shifts, financial stress, caregiving burdens, and grief. For people with mood conditions she provides support for depression and bipolar concerns and helps build coping strategies for anger, intimacy problems, and isolation.

With 32 years of experience and licenses as a Licensed Master Social Worker and Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Kathryn practices in New Mexico and conducts sessions in English. Prospective clients are encouraged to confirm current session options before booking.

How Kathryn’s Approaches Translate to Online Work

Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on helping people process traumatic events and reduce their ongoing impact, often by working at a pace the client can manage and using techniques to lessen overwhelming reactions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills for changing unhelpful patterns. Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on immediate goals and small steps that move someone toward what they want to change.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Kathryn will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That collaboration includes trying things and adjusting the plan if a different focus would work better.

Confirm the current session options before booking, as formats are not specified in the profile. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules need them. It also supports steady progress by keeping appointments consistent even when life gets hectic.