About Katie
Katie Wooldridge is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Illinois who draws on client-centered, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused approaches to guide change.
Background and approach
With five years of clinical experience, she helps people identify values, build on strengths, and take practical steps toward goals related to stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, and life transitions. Katie emphasizes collaboration and empowers clients to shape their own path toward increased well-being and self-understanding.
Sessions explore thoughts, feelings, and behaviors while developing concrete strategies that reflect each person’s priorities. Katie pays attention to areas such as self-esteem, career concerns, body image, communication problems, and coping after separation or loss, as well as trauma and abuse and challenges around sexual orientation.
Her style centers on listening, building motivation for change, and creating focused plans that move clients forward. Those interested in starting therapy will find a warm, goal-oriented approach aimed at practical progress and personal insight.
Katie welcomes questions and supports clients through the initial steps of scheduling and setting intentions for work together.
Blending Practical Approaches for Online Change
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating an understanding and nonjudgmental space where the client’s perspective guides the work; this approach helps people clarify values and feel heard as they explore stress, relationships, and self-esteem. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, goal-oriented method that boosts internal motivation for change by helping clients weigh options and cultivate commitment; it is useful for shifting habits, navigating life transitions, and addressing ambivalence. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on identifying goals and immediate steps clients can take, emphasizing what is working and building short-term strategies to reach desired outcomes.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the therapeutic process, and Katie works together with each person to determine which approaches fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative exploration helps shape session focus, pacing, and techniques so the plan reflects the client’s priorities.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and maintain continuity during life changes. These options allow clients to choose how they communicate while accessing licensed professionals who can provide consistent guidance and practical tools for coping and growth.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English