About Kathryn
Dr. Kathryn (Kitty) Klee is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 33 years of practice in Illinois. She frames therapy around the client's experience and strengths, and she aims to support people taking steps toward clearer goals and more satisfying daily life.
She works with adults on issues like family conflict, parenting concerns, low self-esteem, and coping with big life changes. ADHD, addiction, relationship strain, trauma, and sleep problems are also addressed when relevant to a person's situation.
Background and approach
The tone in sessions is respectful and practical rather than clinical. Dr. Klee emphasizes that each person knows their story best.
She helps people build on what already works for them and tries to make change feel manageable. Sessions focus on small, concrete steps alongside exploring underlying patterns that keep problems repeating. Her approach blends client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy, among other methods.
That mix lets her pair close attention to a person's values with skills for managing mood, attention, and communication. People who choose her often want clear tools as well as a steady, supportive professional voice. She helps with career worries, compassion fatigue, intimacy-related concerns, and complex life transitions.
The goal is steady progress, not quick fixes. Work with Dr. Klee can involve practical skills training, improved communication strategies, and reflective conversations about meaning and choices.
She aims to help people feel more confident in daily life and better able to handle ongoing challenges.
How Dr. Klee’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Dr. Klee uses client-centered therapy to follow a person's priorities and build on their strengths. This approach focuses on listening deeply and reflecting what matters most to the client, which helps shape practical goals and next steps.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change patterns. CBT techniques can help with mood, attention, sleep, and the everyday challenges of ADHD. Dialectical behavior therapy adds skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when feelings run high.
Finding the best fit is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, try techniques that match those goals, and adjust the approach over time. Clients help set priorities and decide which methods feel most useful for their situation.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls are good when visual cues matter and a longer session is helpful. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio-only check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging make shorter check-ins and ongoing skill practice easier to fit into a busy day. These options aim to increase flexibility so therapy can fit into real life.
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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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