Kathleen Eager-Ariz

Kathleen Eager-Ariz works with people navigating busy lives and competing responsibilities, whether they are students, workers, parents, or juggling several roles at once. She recognizes how easy it is to become overworked, hold oneself to high expectations, and run out of energy and motivation. By slowing down and checking in on habits, behaviors, emotions, and intuition, she helps clients reconnect with their sense of purpose and become more present in daily life.

Kathleen holds a belief in each person’s resilience and capacity for growth, while acknowledging that trauma or long-standing patterns can create barriers to change. She supports clients in exploring what keeps them stuck and offers guidance toward practical steps for living more fully. She has experience assisting people with anxiety, depression, trauma, emotional dysregulation, adjustment to life transitions, relationship concerns, and parenting challenges.

Her therapeutic style is collaborative, person-centered, and solution-focused. Kathleen frequently draws from psychodynamic approaches, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT/DBT/ACT), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), tailoring these methods to individual needs. She brings a friendly, passionate, and optimistic presence to sessions and is authentic in her work. Kathleen is a licensed professional counselor (TX LPC 89421) with 3 years of clinical experience and is based in Texas.