About Kathleen
Kathleen Griffin is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) in Illinois who focuses on anxiety and related concerns. She works with people facing stress, relationship struggles, low self-esteem, career challenges, grief, and major life changes. Her style is respectful and compassionate, aimed at helping people find practical ways forward.
She uses a mix of approaches to fit each person’s needs rather than one fixed method. Sessions often involve learning skills to manage overwhelming feelings, talking through relationship patterns, and setting small goals that build confidence.
Background and approach
Kathleen keeps language plain and actions practical so progress feels achievable. Her background includes 14 years of professional experience in mental health work across several common life issues. She draws from therapies that focus on thoughts and behaviors as well as approaches that look at attachment and personal values.
This range helps her tailor work for someone dealing with anxiety, depression, or burnout. In sessions Kathleen encourages collaboration. She listens first, then helps shape a plan that fits daily life and real commitments.
People can expect clear steps and techniques they can try between meetings. Her Illinois licensure is listed as LCPC. She provides care in English and offers multiple online session formats to fit different schedules.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that works for them.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and build small actions toward those values. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. This approach is useful for anxiety, sleep problems, and depression.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and suggest methods that match your needs and preferences. Together you can try different techniques and adjust the plan based on what helps most in day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy routines. Video is helpful for full conversations and skill practice, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging lets people check in between meetings or have shorter updates. These options aim to make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting around work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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