About Kathryn
Kathryn Douglas helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting strains, and difficulties with self-esteem. She is an LPC and an LPCC with 19 years in mental health work. Kathryn uses straightforward, practical methods to address daily challenges and persistent problems.
Clients often come for help with sleep struggles, anger, relationship and intimacy concerns, or addictive behaviors. Kathryn also supports people dealing with bipolar symptoms, ADHD, postpartum depression, and compassion fatigue.
How Kathryn works
She pays attention to cultural factors and issues like prejudice and discrimination when they affect mental health. Her approach is rooted in behaviorally focused strategies such as cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused work. Kathryn combines these with client-centered care and acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and make usable changes.
Sessions focus on real-life skills, small experiments, and planning that fit daily routines. She has worked in community and clinical settings since 2004, bringing long-term experience with chronic mental health conditions and addictions. Kathryn completed a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 2004 and a Master of Education in Counseling in 2007 from Quincy University.
She later earned a graduate certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis and additional graduate study in sociology and forensic psychology. In sessions, Kathryn aims to be practical and down-to-earth. She helps people set clear goals, practice new behaviors, and track progress in simple ways.
The work is collaborative and paced to what each person can manage.
Kathryn lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Kathryn works with
The areas below are the ones Kathryn selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 19 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that reflect those values. It’s useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes because it focuses on moving toward meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change patterns that worsen stress or mood. It often helps with sleep problems, anger, obsessions, and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kathryn will collaborate with each person to choose which methods fit their goals and day-to-day life. That may mean trying a behaviorally focused technique one week and a values-based ACT exercise the next, then adjusting based on what helps most.
Online sessions make this practical work easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls let people practice skills and role-play in real time. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let someone send quick updates, try homework exercises, or check in between sessions. These options increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while managing work, family, and other commitments.
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