About Kathryn
Kathryn (Katie) Pratt is a licensed professional counselor clinically credentialed as LPCC in Minnesota with 14 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship struggles, and life changes. Katie emphasizes practical progress and respects each person's goals and strengths.
Her work is straightforward and collaborative. She listens first, then helps people set small, achievable steps toward change. Sessions mix short-term problem solving with deeper conversations about values and patterns.
Background and approach
Katie draws on tools from cognitive behavioral work, motivational interviewing, and person-centered practices. She also uses mindfulness and narrative ideas to help people notice unhelpful habits and rewrite their stories. These approaches are used flexibly to match what each person needs.
Clients often seek help for depression, grief, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, ADHD concerns, intimacy and sexual issues, or recovery from substance use. Additional focus areas include attachment issues, codependency, family of origin matters, and communication problems. Katie supports people navigating commitment concerns, guilt and shame, and rebuilding self-esteem.
Her style balances warmth with practical coaching. She aims to build a working relationship that feels supportive and honest. People who want clear tools, gentle accountability, and space to reflect often find this approach helpful.
Approaches that guide online work and practical care
Many of Katie's sessions draw on cognitive behavioral ideas, which focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to improve mood and functioning. This approach can help with anxiety, depression, and patterns that keep problems going.She also uses motivational interviewing to support change when people feel stuck or ambivalent. That technique is useful for substance use, making lifestyle changes, or any goal that requires shifting behavior. Person-centered practices are woven in as well, creating space for people to be heard and to set their own priorities.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Katie works with each person to figure out what methods fit their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. She adjusts pacing and tools as progress unfolds so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick updates, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers writing over talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity during life transitions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English