About Kathryn
Kathryn Klein welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to start. She focuses on helping individuals manage stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief, parenting strain, mood concerns, and identity questions. Kathryn aims for calm, direct conversations that point toward practical next steps.
She treats the therapeutic relationship as a simple human connection. Kathryn listens first, then reflects what she hears and offers concrete feedback. Sessions often feel like a straightforward talk where the client sets the pace and goals.
How Kathryn works
Her work draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the client's experience and on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Kathryn also brings in emotionally-focused ideas to look at how feelings shape relationships and uses psychodynamic and Jungian perspectives when deeper patterns or meaning are helpful.
Kathryn has 15 years of professional experience and holds an LCPC, which she uses while working with adults on a wide range of concerns including ADHD, trauma and abuse, bipolar mood issues, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses specific issues such as abandonment, codependency, family of origin problems, and infidelity. Sessions are conducted in English and Kathryn accepts international clients.
She offers a mix of communication formats to fit different needs, and she encourages people to start with a short matching questionnaire to see if her approach fits their goals.
Kathryn lists 8 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters to the client. It helps people feel heard, identify priorities, and steer sessions in the direction they choose. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers clear tools to change unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms such as anxiety or low mood. Emotionally-focused therapy helps people recognize and name feelings and understand how emotions affect their behavior and relationships, which can be useful for managing grief, anger, or intimacy concerns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what works. That teamwork helps clients find practical steps and methods that fit their daily life.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging allows short check-ins or longer written reflections. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different formats until the best fit is found.
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