Linda "Kathleen" Brown

Linda “Kathleen” Brown recognizes and commends the courage it takes to begin work on emotional health. She acknowledges that first steps often feel difficult, and that feelings of embarrassment, discomfort, or avoidance are common. Kathleen emphasizes the importance of self-care for maintaining both physical and emotional well-being and encourages people to view investing time in themselves as a meaningful choice.

Kathleen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credentialed to practice in both Missouri and Arizona. She earned her degree from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University and brings 26 years of clinical experience to her practice. Her background spans private practice, inpatient hospitalization, residential treatment, and telephone crisis care, and she has provided individual, group, and family therapy across these settings.

Her areas of focus include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, depression, family conflicts, eating disorders, parenting issues, anger management, career difficulties, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, and ADHD. She has also supervised aspiring mental health professionals working toward undergraduate and graduate degrees and those meeting state licensure requirements. Kathleen favors Cognitive Behavioral Therapy combined with strengths-based and solution-focused approaches, and she adapts treatment using other modalities as needed to meet each person’s unique needs. She aims to help clients set realistic, achievable goals and welcomes the opportunity to work together toward a more rewarding and fulfilling life.