About Katie
Katie Wooldridge is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Illinois with five years of professional experience. She welcomes people who are ready to make a change and offers a calm, straightforward approach to getting started. Katie emphasizes practical steps that fit each person's life and values.
She uses a collaborative style that focuses on the client's strengths. Sessions involve talking through thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and trying small, practical strategies.
Background and approach
Katie encourages people to set clear goals and take manageable steps toward them. Her work covers stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, coping with life changes, and trauma and abuse. She also supports concerns around self-esteem, body image, career decisions, communication problems, divorce and separation, and social anxiety or phobia.
Katie draws on client-centered methods to listen and follow the client’s lead. She also uses motivational interviewing to help people find motivation for change and solution-focused techniques to build short-term plans and actions. These approaches are used to match the moment and the client’s goals.
People meet with Katie through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She aims to help clients find realistic shifts they can use outside sessions. For anyone ready to try therapy, Katie asks you to start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling a time to meet.
How Katie’s approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following your lead. The therapist offers acceptance and reflection so you can clarify what matters and feel understood. This approach is useful for people sorting through feelings, identity questions, or relationship confusion.Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. It uses open questions and gentle feedback to build motivation for decisions about habits, career moves, or lifestyle shifts. It’s often helpful when someone feels stuck or unsure where to begin.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Katie will talk with you about your goals and try methods that fit your pace and needs. Together you can adjust the plan as you learn what produces useful changes.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let you use visual cues when helpful, phone sessions work when internet quality is lower, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit quick check-ins or shorter days. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, school, or family demands and to continue progress even when life is busy.
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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