About Katie
Katie Wooldridge is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Illinois. She has five years of experience helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and life changes. Katie greets each person with a steady, nonjudgmental presence and aims to make the first step feel manageable.
Katie works with clients to talk through thoughts, feelings, and day-to-day behavior. She focuses on clear, practical strategies that match a person's values and goals.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to the individual's needs. Her approach asks the client to name what matters most and to use their own strengths to make change. Katie uses conversation to identify workable steps and to build confidence in handling challenges like career decisions, social anxiety, or body image concerns.
She also supports people coping with trauma and abuse, divorce and separation, and questions about sexual orientation and identity. Communication problems, self-esteem, life purpose, and self-love are common topics she helps people face without judgment. Katie offers a calm space for people who need help sorting priorities and finding practical next steps.
She can guide short-term goal setting or provide longer-term support depending on what a person wants to work on.
Approach-Focused Care Available Online
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the person's experience and works by listening, reflecting, and helping the individual identify what matters most in their life. It can be helpful for anxiety, low self-esteem, and finding direction. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative conversation style that helps people resolve mixed feelings and find internal reasons to change. It often supports decisions about life changes, career moves, or behavior shifts. Solution-Focused Therapy looks for practical, immediate steps and builds on what already works. This approach is useful for short-term goals and for turning small successes into bigger change.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, preferences, and daily life to decide which methods to try first. Plans are adjusted over time based on progress and comfort, with the client guiding what feels most useful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit different routines. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation when bandwidth permits. Phone sessions can be easier when someone needs a quieter or simpler option. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options aim to make it easier to keep consistent work on stress, anxiety, relationships, and other concerns without major scheduling disruption.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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