About Kathryn
Dr. Kathryn (Kitty) Klee brings 33 years of clinical experience to her work in Illinois. She is an LCPC and focuses on practical help for people facing family stress, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, addiction concerns, and major life changes.
Her approach is straightforward and respectful. She emphasizes each person's strengths and choices. She listens first to understand what matters to the client.
Sessions focus on clear goals and steps clients can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Conversations include skill-building for emotions, improving communication, and coping strategies for sleep, stress, or career strain. Kathy draws on several therapeutic methods depending on what a person needs. She uses client-centered techniques to keep the work grounded in the client's experience.
She also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to identify thoughts and habits that get in the way. When emotions run high or patterns feel stuck, she introduces dialectical behavior ideas to help regulate feelings and manage intense moments. Emotionally focused approaches are used to address relationship and intimacy-related concerns.
Existential ideas come into play when clients face big questions about meaning and direction. People working with her can expect calm, direct conversation and practical tools. She talks through options rather than prescribing one path.
Her goal is to help people feel more confident making changes and handling setbacks.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's perspective and building on their strengths; it helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort through feelings and choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and gives concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with depression, anxiety, sleep problems, or motivation issues.Finding the best approach is usually a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan as needed. Decisions about which methods to use are made together based on what helps most in session and in daily life.
Online formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video lets people use visual cues in conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can be useful for brief check-ins or ongoing skill practice. These options give flexibility and allow work to continue from different locations and routines.
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What this counselor 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