About Kathryn
Dr. Kathryn (Kitty) Klee is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 33 years of experience practicing in Illinois. She draws on a long career helping people with family conflict, parenting challenges, motivation, and low self-esteem.
Her style is straightforward and respectful. She encourages clients to build on their own strengths as they work toward change. Kitty believes the person in therapy knows their story best.
She treats clients as partners rather than passive recipients.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and small shifts that feel doable between meetings. The goal is clearer choices and more confidence in daily life. Her experience includes supporting people through big life transitions, struggles with attention and addiction, and the fallout of trauma and relationship pain.
She also addresses issues such as sleep problems, career stress, depression, and compassion fatigue. Additional interests include adoption and foster care concerns, aging, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and communication problems. Dr.
Klee uses several approaches to fit each person's needs rather than one fixed method. She integrates somatic awareness, client-centered listening, and cognitive strategies so clients understand what they feel and think. That blend helps people learn new coping skills and safer ways to relate to others.
People who prefer direct guidance and calm, steady support often find her approach useful. She focuses on practical progress and helps clients turn new awareness into everyday habits.
Approach options and online therapy flexibility
Somatic work helps people notice body sensation and how stress shows up physically. It can be useful for trauma responses, chronic tension, and learning new ways to calm the body. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and supporting each person to find their own solutions. It suits people who need a respectful, nonjudgmental space to sort feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful. Together they try ideas, adjust methods, and pick what works best for day-to-day challenges.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more accessible. These options let people connect from home, fit sessions around busy schedules, and follow progress between meetings. The mix of approaches and flexible formats aims to help clients practice new skills where life happens.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- 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