Katie Wooldridge

Katie Wooldridge is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Illinois with five years of professional experience. She welcomes people who want to make a change and offers calm, straightforward support as they take that first step.

Katie focuses on practical conversations about thoughts, feelings, and behavior. She helps people identify small, doable strategies that fit their values and goals. Her style is supportive and direct, with an emphasis on building on strengths rather than redoing who someone is.

Sessions typically involve mapping what matters most to the client and then creating clear steps toward those aims. Katie listens for what a person already does well and uses that as a starting point for change. She encourages realistic goals and steady progress instead of all-or-nothing fixes.

Her areas of focus include stress and anxiety, relationship concerns, grief, coping with life changes, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem. Additional attention is given to body image, communication problems, career questions, life purpose, self-love, social anxiety and phobia, and divorce and separation.

Katie uses approaches that center the client’s perspective and motivation. She aims to help people feel heard, understand their options, and take practical steps that suit their lives. If someone wants to begin, she asks them to use the platform Start Therapy flow to match and schedule a session.

How Katie’s Approaches Work Online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps the client name their goals so sessions move in the direction the client chooses.

Motivational Interviewing uses gentle questions to boost a person’s own reasons for change. It helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about next steps by clarifying values and building readiness to act.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Katie will work with the client to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they check in on what’s working and adjust the plan over time.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit care into a busy life by reducing travel time and allowing sessions to be scheduled around work or family obligations. It can also simplify checking in between bigger changes, practicing short strategies during the week, or keeping momentum after a difficult event. Confirm the current session options before booking so you know what formats are available.