Kathleen Lynch Gaffney
Compassionate, experienced guidance for life transitions
LCSW New York
- Experience
- 35 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Family, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Kathleen
Kathleen Lynch Gaffney is a New York licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, mood disorders, and life transitions.
Background and approach
With 35 years of clinical experience, she works from a collaborative, respectful stance and invites clients to share their stories so together they can identify practical, sustainable steps forward. Her practice blends evidence-based methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with acceptance, attachment, and mindfulness-informed approaches.
Kathleen emphasizes listening and reliability as foundational to the therapeutic relationship, aiming to create a space where clients feel heard while learning new ways to manage emotions, cope with change, and address challenges like parenting, career strain, eating concerns, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and issues related to HIV/AIDS.
She encourages reaching out as a constructive first step and supports clients in exploring goals and options at a pace that fits their needs. Kathleen accepts sessions via multiple online formats to accommodate different schedules and preferences.
Therapeutic approaches and online care tailored to you
Kathleen often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients identify and shift unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors, which can be useful for managing anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to support people in clarifying their values, building psychological flexibility, and learning practical acceptance skills for difficult feelings.Finding the right approach is part of the work together; Kathleen takes a collaborative stance and will help clients explore which methods align with their goals, preferences, and life circumstances. She adjusts techniques based on feedback and progress so that therapy feels personally relevant and workable.
Online therapy offers practical advantages for many people, and Kathleen provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility and access. These formats allow scheduling to better fit busy lives, enable continuity of care across locations within New York, and make it easier to maintain therapeutic momentum between sessions.
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Experience
35+ years
Licensed
New York
Languages
English