About Kathryn
Kathryn (Katie) Pratt is a Minnesota licensed professional clinical counselor with 14 years of experience. She centers her work on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, relationship struggles, and major life changes. Katie keeps things straightforward and practical so parents and busy adults can fit therapy into their lives.
Katie says people are the experts in their own stories. She listens for strengths and helps clients use those strengths to meet goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear steps, small experiments, and tools people can try between meetings. Her background includes work with grief, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, career concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses attachment issues, codependency, communication problems, and family of origin patterns.
Katie brings a calm, down-to-earth style to difficult topics. In session she blends several evidence-based approaches, using motivational techniques, solution-focused conversations, and cognitive-behavioral strategies. Mindfulness and narrative work are woven in when they fit the person’s needs.
The aim is practical progress rather than jargon or long, abstract plans. Katie emphasizes a supportive relationship built with honesty and occasional humor. She works with people who want to reduce anxiety, improve relationships, manage substance concerns, or rebuild after loss.
Her goal is to help each person make changes that feel realistic for their everyday life.
How Katie Uses Practical Approaches Online
Kathryn often draws on motivational interviewing to help people find internal reasons to change; this approach focuses on clear, nonjudgmental conversation to strengthen motivation for steps like cutting back on substances or starting a new routine. Cognitive-behavioral strategies are used to spot and test unhelpful thoughts and to build manageable behavior changes that reduce anxiety and improve mood.She treats finding the right approach as a team effort. Katie will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before, then try methods that match those needs. If something doesn’t fit, she adjusts the plan so it better meets the person’s day-to-day life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation for skill practice and deeper dialogue. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Chat and messaging offer flexibility for brief reflections, coaching-style check-ins, and follow-up between sessions. Together these options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy family schedule or a workday break.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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