About Kathleen
Kathleen Griffin is a licensed professional counselor with 14 years of clinical experience in Illinois who supports people facing relationship struggles, anxiety, depression, grief, and the stresses of major life changes.
Background and approach
She also works with concerns related to self-esteem, career challenges, compassion fatigue, intimacy and sexual expression, parenting, bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, and a broad range of interpersonal and personality-related issues. Kathleen brings particular attention to themes such as attachment, abandonment, blended family dynamics, caregiving stress, and codependency.
Her style emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion while adapting conversations and treatment plans to each person’s circumstances. She draws from a mix of evidence-informed approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to match interventions to goals like improving communication, managing emotions, increasing motivation, and navigating transitions.
Kathleen frames therapy as a collaborative process and aims to empower clients as they take steps toward a more balanced and satisfying life.
Combining therapeutic approaches with flexible online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and developing psychological flexibility so clients can act in ways that matter to them even when difficult thoughts or feelings arise; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy attends to relational patterns formed over time and explores how early attachments influence current relationships and emotional responses, which can be useful for intimacy problems, abandonment issues, and communication struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic work. Kathleen collaborates with clients to identify which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences, and she adapts interventions as progress unfolds so treatment remains responsive and practical.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for busy schedules and varied comfort levels with communication. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care during life changes and to access licensed professionals from different locations within Illinois. The range of formats supports ongoing skill-building, check-ins, and deeper sessions depending on what each person finds most helpful.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English