About Katie
Katie Ross-McGinnis is a licensed professional counselor in Wisconsin who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, and the fallout from trauma. She focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life easier. Her style is calm and direct, aimed at helping people build coping skills and feel steadier.
Katie works with people dealing with attachment and abandonment concerns, obsessive patterns, and personality-related challenges. She also supports recovery from drug and alcohol addiction and helps those processing sexual assault, domestic violence, or other past abuse.
How Katie works
She pays attention to how family of origin and first responder experiences shape current struggles. Her approach uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide work on symptoms and life changes. Sessions focus on building useful strategies for stress management, reducing anxiety, and addressing compulsive behaviors.
Katie also helps people explore identity questions such as gender dysphoria when that is part of their concern. Clients can expect a collaborative relationship where goals are set together and progress is checked along the way. Conversations aim to increase insight while also offering concrete tools to practice between sessions.
The tone is supportive and nonjudgmental. Katie has three years of clinical experience and holds the LPC credential, which stands for Licensed Professional Counselor. She offers appointments across a range of formats and conducts sessions in English for people located in Wisconsin.
What Katie works with
The areas below are the ones Katie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Isolation / loneliness
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How evidence-based work translates to online therapy
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on clear, practical steps to ease symptoms and build new habits. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches breathing, grounding, and behavioral strategies to reduce anxiety and manage urges. These tools are useful for stress, obsessive behaviors, and addiction-related cravings.Another approach centers on trauma-focused processing that helps people make sense of painful events and reduce their emotional hold. This kind of work often combines careful pacing with coping skills so that memories can be addressed without becoming overwhelming.
Choosing the right method is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, challenges, and preferences, and then try approaches that seem like the best fit. Adjustments are made over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to get support. Video calls let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use a camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, shorter updates, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work between appointments.
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