About Kathryn
Dr. Kathryn (Kitty) Klee is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Illinois with 33 years of experience. She frames therapy as a partnership and treats each person as the expert on their own story.
Her approach aims to boost confidence and motivation so people can move toward a more satisfying life. She often helps people who are dealing with family conflict and parenting questions. She also works with issues around self-esteem, major life changes, attention challenges such as ADHD, addiction, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related worries.
How Kathryn works
Sleep problems, career stress, depression, and compassion fatigue are also within her focus. Her practice pays attention to additional concerns that commonly overlap with core issues. These include abandonment and attachment questions, adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, and caregiver stress.
She also supports people facing chronic illness or pain, body image struggles, and complex identity or relationship matters such as kink and alternative sex culture. Dr. Klee uses a mix of counseling methods tailored to each person.
She draws on client-centered work to follow a person’s lead, cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, and emotion-focused techniques for deepening connection to feelings. Dialectical and existential perspectives are available when questions of balance, distress tolerance, meaning, or life purpose arise. Her sessions are intended to be practical and straightforward.
People can expect clear conversation about goals, simple tools to try between meetings, and ongoing adjustments as needs change.
Kathryn lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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.
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 33 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead to build trust and clarify goals; online sessions let that conversational work happen through video, phone, chat, or messaging. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets thinking patterns and behaviors with concrete exercises and homework, which can be easily shared and reviewed in digital sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes skills for managing strong emotions and improving distress tolerance, and these skills can be taught in short bursts via text or through focused video or phone meetings.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit best. That partnership makes it easier to adjust methods over time if something isn’t working.
Online formats offer flexibility for people juggling busy lives. Video calls are useful for live conversation and reading facial cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging allow quick check-ins, short skill practice, and accessibility when scheduling or camera use is a barrier. These options help make consistent care easier to fit into everyday life.
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