About Kathleen
Kathleen Griffin helps people facing relationship strain, low self-esteem, career uncertainty, stress and anxiety. She also supports those coping with grief, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, parenting strain, and major life changes. Kathleen holds an IL LCPC and brings 14 years of experience to her work.
Her style is direct and respectful. She listens first, then adapts the conversation to a person’s needs. Sessions aim to build practical skills and clearer thinking.
How Kathleen works
Kathleen frames goals so progress can be measured step by step. She uses several evidence-based approaches to guide sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is used to clarify values and help clients commit to meaningful action despite difficult feelings. Attachment-Based Therapy informs how Kathleen looks at relationship patterns and emotional needs. Dialectical Behavior Therapy supplies concrete tools for emotion regulation and coping during high-stress moments.
Client-Centered Therapy keeps the person’s experience central during conversations. Kathleen works with issues such as intimacy-related concerns, bipolar and depressive symptoms, sleeping problems, anger, codependency, and identity questions including LGBT matters. She also addresses adoption and foster care topics, abandonment, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and other focused areas.
Clients connect with her for both short-term coaching and longer therapeutic work. She tailors plans to each person and supports practical steps toward clearer direction and healthier habits.
Kathleen lists 17 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
What Kathleen works with
The areas below are the ones Kathleen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people get clearer about what matters to them and take steps toward those values even when emotions are hard. It is useful for anxiety, depression, life transitions, and motivation concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior that cause distress and replacing them with practical alternatives to change feelings and actions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kathleen will discuss goals and preferences and together decide which methods fit best. That makes sessions collaborative and tailored so techniques match what a person wants to achieve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone can be a lower-bandwidth option or a way to fit a session into a busy day. Live chat and text messages let people check in between sessions, do brief coaching, or have shorter focused conversations without scheduling a full call. These options help make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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