About Kathleen
Kathleen Griffin is a licensed clinical professional counselor who helps people facing relationship struggles, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She works with concerns like self-esteem, career challenges, grief, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. Kathleen also supports people dealing with trauma, intimacy issues, sleep disruption, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder.
She brings 14 years of experience working with diverse problems. Kathleen uses everyday conversation and practical steps to help people move forward.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped to each person's needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Kathleen draws from several therapy approaches to match what a person needs in the moment. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take manageable steps toward them.
She also applies cognitive behavioral ideas to spot patterns that keep problems going and build new habits. Her style is warm and respectful. She focuses on listening first, then offering tools that fit daily life.
Expect straightforward language, clear goals, and exercises you can try between sessions. Kathleen is licensed in Illinois as an LCPC. She offers sessions in English and works remotely through several formats.
If someone wants a therapist who emphasizes practical change and respectful support, Kathleen aims to provide that guidance.
How Kathleen’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people get clear about what matters to them and take small, doable steps toward those values while learning to live with uncomfortable feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replacing them with more effective patterns to reduce anxiety and depression. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people build safer, more satisfying ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kathleen will work with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. She blends strategies rather than sticking strictly to one model so the work fits each person’s situation and pace.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video lets you use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is better. Live chat and messaging are good for shorter exchanges, ongoing coaching, or when someone wants written prompts and reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while still getting consistent therapeutic support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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