About Kate
Kate Evans is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) in Illinois with 21 years of experience. She focuses on helping people - especially women - build confidence and claim the life they want. Her work often centers on anxiety, stress, self-esteem, and life transitions.
Her approach is practical and down-to-earth. She pays attention to emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual sides of a person. Sessions look at daily habits, relationships, and thinking patterns that keep someone stuck.
Background and approach
Kate uses straightforward tools to boost motivation and self-worth. She helps people name what they want and break that goal into small steps. Conversation in sessions aims to turn insight into action so changes stick.
She often addresses perfectionism, fear of failure, negative self-talk, and the habit of putting others first. She supports people navigating grief, career shifts, divorce and separation, fertility concerns, and intimacy questions. Trauma, depression, and compassion fatigue are also areas she helps with.
Therapy sessions combine cognitive and behavioral strategies with mindfulness and practical problem-solving. The work is collaborative - she treats each person as the expert on their life while offering guidance and skills. The goal is clearer priorities, healthier coping, and more self-compassion.
People who want a steady, encouraging guide for real-life change may find her style a good fit. She aims to walk beside clients as they try new ways of living and discover stronger self-trust.
Approaches that guide online sessions
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing the behaviors that follow. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and low self-esteem because it gives concrete tools to challenge negative thinking and try new actions.DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, emphasizes emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and building practical skills. It can help people who feel overwhelmed by intense emotions or who want steadier coping strategies in tough moments.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and what feels doable. That exploration can begin in the first few sessions and adjust over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction when it helps. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier on busy days. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a workday, a caregiving routine, or a changing schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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