Kathleen Griffin, LCPC
Illinois · 14 years in practice
Kathleen Griffin is a licensed professional counselor (LCPC) in Illinois who helps people navigate relationship struggles, low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, career shifts, grief, and burnout.
License and registration
- LCPC, Illinois
- 180.010989 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1588158000 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 14
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Kathleen
Kathleen Griffin is a licensed professional counselor (LCPC) in Illinois who helps people navigate relationship struggles, low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, career shifts, grief, and burnout. She offers calm, direct support for parenting challenges, intimacy concerns, sleep problems, and trauma-related stress. Kathleen aims to help clients take practical steps toward a more manageable day-to-day life.
Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. She listens first, then adapts conversation and strategies to each persons needs.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small attainable goals, clearer communication, and skills you can use between meetings. Kathleen emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every interaction. She draws on Jungian ideas alongside cognitive behavioral and acceptance-based techniques.
That mix lets her attend to both personal meaning and concrete behavior change. Attachment-focused work is used when relationship patterns and bonding history are central to the concern. Over 14 years of practice, Kathleen has supported people facing life transitions, caregiving stress, adoption and foster care concerns, and complicated grief.
She also works with issues related to kink and alternative sexual culture without judgment. Her style combines listening with guidance so clients can try new ways of relating and coping. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Conversations may be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and routines.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Kathleen lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- 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
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Kathleen names
- Jungian Therapy
- 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
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Jungian Therapy looks at personal meaning, symbols, and life themes to help people understand deeper patterns in relationships and self-image. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choosing actions that match your values to move forward. Attachment-Based Therapy concentrates on how early bonding and relationship histories shape current connection styles and communication, which can help when trust or closeness is difficult.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your concerns and goals, then suggest a blend of methods that suits your needs. That collaborative process means trying practical skills and also looking at underlying patterns when it helps.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video lets you use face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat offers a quicker check-in, and messaging supports short reflections between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy days and varying schedules while keeping the focus on your goals and progress.
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Questions people ask
What problems does she help with?
She helps with relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, career changes, anxiety, depression, trauma and grief, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, sleep issues, and intimacy concerns.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is collaborative and practical. She listens, then shapes conversations and tools to fit each person's goals and daily routines.
What background and experience does she bring?
She has 14 years of professional experience working with life transitions, caregiver stress, adoption and foster care issues, and related concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LCPC - licensed clinical professional counselor - practicing in Illinois.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English only and international clients are not accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be held as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits your schedule.
How does pricing work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by clicking the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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