About Kathyrn
Kathyrn Chociej is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and the challenges that come with trauma and relationship strain. She works with LGBT concerns and supports people coping with loss. Her style centers on listening and helping clients use their own strengths to move forward.
Kathyrn has ten years of professional experience practicing in Washington as a LICSW - Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker.
Background and approach
She treats each person as an expert in their own life and focuses on practical steps that fit daily routines. Sessions aim to be straightforward and focused on real problems clients bring in. In therapy she uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address worry, rumination, and the emotional effects of past harm.
She helps people break problems into manageable parts and try new ways of responding to stress. Work may include building skills for coping, pacing through grief, and shifting unhelpful patterns that keep problems stuck. Kathyrn also supports people dealing with identity and relationship concerns, including gender dysphoria and LGBT-related stress.
She works with people who experience chronic illness, pain, or caregiving strain and with those processing life transitions like divorce or midlife changes. The approach is collaborative. Clients set the goals and Kathyrn offers structure, feedback, and skill-building to help reach them.
She encourages small, sustainable changes that add up over time.
How evidence-based work translates to online therapy
Many of the evidence-based techniques Kathyrn uses focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and building coping skills. One common approach helps people identify worry patterns and practice new ways of thinking to reduce anxious reactions; this is useful for generalized anxiety and persistent stress. Another focuses on processing trauma and its emotional impact through structured, gradual steps that emphasize safety and pacing; this supports people working through past harm and its effects.Finding the right combination of techniques is part of the work. Kathyrn collaborates with each person to decide which approaches fit their goals and day-to-day life. She adjusts methods as progress is made and encourages clients to try practical skills between sessions to see what helps most.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a visual connection is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer flexible, brief ways to exchange thoughts and practice skills between meetings. These options make it easier to fit care into busy schedules and to keep therapy consistent over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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