About Kathryn
Kathryn Klein is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 15 years of practice. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, depression, relationship pain, and life changes. Her style is conversational and direct, with an emphasis on listening first and offering feedback and options.
Kathryn aims to be a steady presence as people talk through hard things. She draws on several therapeutic traditions to shape sessions.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. Emotionally-Focused Therapy supports people who want clearer emotional connection and understanding in relationships. Client-Centered work keeps sessions focused on each person's experience and goals.
Kathryn treats issues such as trauma and abuse, grief, ADHD, bipolar concerns, parenting strains, anger, self-esteem, career stresses, and compassion fatigue. She also works with related struggles like abandonment, codependency, family of origin problems, infidelity, jealousy, and control issues. Her background supports addressing both single concerns and co-occurring problems.
She practices from Illinois and offers services in English. Kathryn welcomes people who identify as LGBT and supports those navigating family problems or fatherhood issues. She uses a conversational approach that blends insight, feedback, and practical suggestions tailored to each person's needs.
People who want to begin are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to therapist availability. Kathryn prefers a collaborative process and encourages clients to raise questions about approach and goals along the way.
How Kathryn's Methods Translate to Online Care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the client's experience and priorities. Kathryn listens closely and follows what matters most to the person in front of her, which helps clarify goals and next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and uses practical exercises to change those patterns, useful for anxiety, stress, and mood issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kathryn will discuss what feels most useful and adapt methods based on a client's needs, goals, and preferences. This is a collaborative process where techniques are tested and adjusted together rather than fixed in advance.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions are an option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text messaging support ongoing processing and quick check-ins between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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