About Kathryn
Dr. Kathryn (Kitty) Klee is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Illinois with 33 years of experience. She emphasizes a respectful, person-focused approach and sees clients as the experts on their own lives.
Her manner is supportive and steady, aimed at helping people take practical steps toward change. She helps people dealing with family conflict and parenting strain. She also supports those facing low self-esteem, motivation challenges, and major life transitions.
Background and approach
People bring concerns such as depression, sleep problems, addiction, ADHD, relationship and intimacy issues, and burnout from caregiving. In sessions she listens first and asks clear questions to understand each person’s goals. She draws on client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the client.
She also uses cognitive-behavioral tools to address patterns that get in the way of daily functioning. Her practice includes techniques from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and from emotionally-focused approaches to improve how people connect in relationships. She is comfortable addressing attachment and trauma-related concerns and work that touches on adoption, blended-family dynamics, chronic illness, and body image.
People often come for help with decision points in career or relationships, or when coping with loss and change. Dr. Klee aims to help clients build practical skills, try new ways of responding, and notice small improvements.
She supports each person at their own pace and helps map a path forward. Sessions are offered in English and are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and following what matters most to the client. It helps people clarify their goals and feel heard while they try new ways of coping. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches practical skills to change them; it can help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and focus. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, offers concrete tools for emotion regulation, stress tolerance, and improving relationships when emotions feel overwhelming.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dr. Klee uses an initial conversation to learn about goals, then suggests approaches based on those needs. She collaborates with each person to adjust methods over time so sessions match what is most useful.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, live chat works for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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