About Katie
Katie Ross-McGinnis is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin who helps people facing anxiety and stress. She welcomes direct, practical conversations and focuses on creating a respectful space where people feel heard. Her style is calm and straightforward, aimed at helping clients find tools that work in daily life.
Katie supports people working through trauma and abuse, compulsive patterns, and struggles with addiction. She pays attention to how past relationships and family history affect present behavior.
Background and approach
Conversations often focus on clear steps clients can take to reduce symptoms and regain control. Sessions include looking at reactions to stress, tackling social anxiety and isolation, and addressing attachment or abandonment concerns. Katie also helps with issues related to gender identity, first responder stress, and the effects of sexual assault.
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide the work without relying on jargon. With three years of clinical experience, Katie draws on practical methods to help clients build resilience and strengthen coping skills. Her approach is collaborative - she listens, offers options, and adjusts methods to fit each person's needs.
People meet by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which allows flexibility around work and family life. Sessions are scheduled through an online matching process that lets clients choose a time that fits their routine.
Online approaches and flexible care
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques are used to help people reduce anxiety and manage stress. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and trying new responses in everyday situations. This helps with social anxiety, obsessive patterns, and low self-esteem by offering concrete skills to practice.Another approach emphasizes processing past trauma and its current effects. That work helps clients understand how earlier experiences shape present reactions and builds steps toward safer coping and emotional regulation. It can support recovery after abuse, assault, or difficult family dynamics.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist works together with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Clients are invited to give feedback so the plan can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people send updates between sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility and accessibility for different schedules and preferences.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Isolation / loneliness
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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