Kathleen Oravec LMFT

Katherine Hutchinson _{on Google}

Feb 13th, 2022

I contacted her for relationship help and she told me to call her at a certain time to explain my situation. I did this and after 10 minutes of telling her my situation, she said she didn't have any more appointments available. Why have me go through the trouble of explaining everything if you aren't accepting new patients? She said she would text me the name of someone that she would refer and 4 days later, no text from her...

George S. _{on Yelp}

Feb 11th, 2022

Kathleen has helped me be a better husband and communicator (still lots of work to do). She is a great resource for marriage and relationship counseling.  Her sessions are really great and get to the point of the problem. We always feel better after talking with her. I was hesitant to use therapy in my younger years but really believe in its power after working with Kathleen. Shes makes everyone feel comfortable and heard.

Stephanie R. _{on Yelp}

Sep 14th, 2020

Absolutely wonderful therapist! She helped us through marriage counseling and she was incredibly helpful. She listens to both sides thoroughly, provides helpful feedback and helped us get our marriage back to where we hoped it could be again. She is knowledgeable, compassionate and empathetic and we couldn't have asked for a better therapist.

James S. _{on Yelp}

Sep 12th, 2020

I can't say this person is all bad, and it kind of depends what you're looking for.  If you want someone to help you with techniques (e.g., how to listen to and collaborate with your partner or get out of your own story line) this is definitely not the person for that.  If you're looking for a reason to get out of your marriage (and I suspect many who go to therapy are looking for that-- for someone to tell them what's what so they can move on) this person is perfect.  Basically, she takes issues presented to her by you or the other person out of context and at face value, magnifies them, and then pushes you on them (why did you do X?  It must be because of Y)-- so the part comes to stand for the whole, and a lot of complexity gets reduced to very simple motivations, usually revolving around motifs of power and vulnerability, or strength and weakness.  Moreover, rather than helping you to see outside your storyline, or narrative, the tendency is for her to magnify the story line you present-- which can be good, again, because it pushes the narrator to the breaking point where she's forced to confront the logical implications of her positions when taken to the extreme, regardless of their truth of falsehood.  But again this is not particularly helpful if you just want to learn how to talk to your partner better.  Obviously, this person is not fair or balanced, and that doesn't seem to be the point of her style of "therapy"-- it's more about pushing you into an existential crisis where you're compelled to act one way or another, which is antithetical to the idea of "balance".  Naturally, what ends up happening with an approach like this is that a lot of knee jerk culturally based assumptions about appropriate behavior and personhood are tucked into her judgements.  The subtext that I get from her is that she doesn't really feel most people should be in relationships at all, and that they're using them to avoid dealing with some more fundamental weakness inside of them,  Which may be true, but it's also based on an Ayn Rand style celebration of the bounded Promethean individual at the center of everything, which is just your standard American B.S. when it comes down to it.  Anyway, definitely an interesting person and listening to her provides interesting insights into aspects of contemporary therapy in the US, but that's probably not what you're paying for.