About Kathleen
Kathleen Griffin supports people facing relationship strain, low self-esteem, career challenges, grief, trauma, anxiety, depression, and stress. She also works with concerns like compassion fatigue, intimacy questions, sleeping problems, parenting strain, and issues related to identity and LGBT concerns. Kathleen is an LCPC - Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois with 14 years of experience.
She uses straightforward conversation to figure out what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on practical skills and clearer thinking.
Background and approach
Kathleen draws from approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people change unhelpful patterns. Her style is warm and respectful. Kathleen aims to listen first and then tailor a plan to each person’s needs.
She encourages realistic goals and small steps that add up to real change. In sessions she may teach emotion regulation skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and explore attachment patterns that shape relationships. Client-centered work guides the pace so people feel heard and understood while learning new ways to cope.
Outside core concerns, Kathleen has experience with topics like abandonment, adoption and foster care, caregiving stress, blended family issues, and a range of personality and relational difficulties. She approaches these topics with sensitivity and practical tools. People start by describing their main worry and what they hope to change.
Kathleen focuses on useful strategies, steady support, and helping people move toward a more satisfying life.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then move toward values-based action. ACT is useful for anxiety, low mood, and life transitions where someone wants more meaning and direction.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going and then testing new ways of thinking and acting. CBT often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress by teaching practical coping skills.
Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early and current relationship patterns shape emotional reactions and closeness. It can help people who struggle with trust, intimacy, or recurring relationship problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions can mix approaches as needed so the plan fits the individual rather than forcing a single method.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help the work. Phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send thoughts between sessions and get support that fits a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and life demands.
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What this counselor 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