About Katie
Katie Ross-McGinnis is a licensed professional counselor in Wisconsin who helps people facing anxiety, stress, addictions, trauma, and major life changes. She focuses on practical steps and steady support so clients can feel less overwhelmed and more able to cope. Katie aims to make sessions straightforward and respectful so people can talk about hard things without judgement.
Katie works with individuals who struggle with social anxiety, obsessive patterns, and feelings of isolation.
Background and approach
She also supports people processing past abuse, attachment wounds, and family of origin problems. Her work includes assisting those navigating substance use concerns and the long road of trauma recovery. In sessions she uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to build new skills and reduce distress.
Conversations move between identifying patterns, practicing coping skills, and trying small behavioral changes that fit daily life. She emphasizes collaboration so clients help shape the plan and goals for therapy. Katie has three years of clinical experience and holds the Licensed Professional Counselor credential, LPC.
She provides care in English for adults living in Wisconsin. Sessions are offered through several online formats for flexibility and accessibility. People who want a calm, direct approach that focuses on concrete coping strategies may find her style helpful.
Katie aims to support clients as they work toward clearer self-understanding and steadier functioning over time.
Approaches for online support and skill building
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on clear, practical work. One common approach uses structured skill practice to reduce anxiety and manage compulsive patterns, teaching simple steps clients can use between sessions to feel steadier. Another approach emphasizes processing trauma through paced, supportive conversations that help people make sense of past events and reduce their emotional hold.Finding the right method is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose or adapt techniques based on the client’s needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they review what’s helping and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let people see and be seen, which helps with interactive skill practice. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick reflections, brief coping strategies, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility so people can use the format that fits their routine and attention span.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Isolation / loneliness
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English