Hi, I’m Kate.
Hi, I'm Kate. I've been doing this work for 14 years and I'm still genuinely curious about every single person I meet. That hasn't changed.
I believe life is worth showing up for fully — the light parts and the shadow ones. The unknown isn't something to outrun. It's where the most interesting things happen. And I think most people who find their way to therapy aren't broken — they're curious. They sense there's more. More depth, more freedom, more of themselves waiting to be discovered.
I believe your mind is always in motion — constantly creating, adapting, and sometimes quietly working against the very thing you want most. Not because something is wrong with you, but because somewhere along the way it made sense to. The patterns you keep repeating, the relationships that feel oddly familiar, the ways you've learned to cope that once kept you safe — they're not random. They're a story worth reading together.
So that's what we do. We slow down. We listen for what's underneath. We notice what shows up between us in the room — because it usually shows up everywhere else too. And slowly, with intention, we create something new. Something that feels like yours. Something colored with a little more hope than when you started.
I think about my patients between sessions. I'll be on a walk and something from our last hour will surface — something you said, something you didn't, something that felt like it wanted more air. This work doesn't clock out at the end of the hour. And neither do I.
I'm warm, direct, and I have a terrible poker face — you'll always know where you stand with me. I'm not here to nod along. I'm here to help you figure out what's true.
I offer psychodynamic telehealth therapy for adults in Chicago and throughout Illinois.
Training & Background
M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
George Washington University 2012
B.A. in Psychology, Sociology, and Gender Studies
Indiana University 2010
Certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis 2025
Why I do this.
I came to this work the way most people do — not through a textbook.
And I came to it with a pretty clear sense of what I didn't want to be. The last thing anyone needs when they're trying to figure themselves out is someone telling them to think positive, mistake activity for depth, or — worse — someone who takes themselves so seriously they've forgotten what it actually feels like to be a person. This work lends itself to a lot of self-importance. I try hard not to do that.
I've been in therapy my entire career. Before it, actually. And I will be for the rest of my life — because I'm a work in progress, and I think that's the point. Therapy has changed the way I move through the world. The curiosity it's given me — about myself, about other people, about why we do what we do — is the greatest thing it's ever given me. I don't come to this work from the outside looking in.
I think of the therapy room as a field. We're two people in it together. The space is yours — but I'm in it too, and I use that relationship to reach toward something deeper. What happens between us in the room tends to reflect what happens everywhere else. That's not incidental. That's the work.
I'm drawn to Thomas Ogden's ideas about the analytic third — the idea that something is created in the space between therapist and patient that belongs to neither of us alone. And I'm interested in what quantum physics suggests about time: that the here and now isn't just a moment passing through — it's the place where past and future are actually shaped. We don't excavate your history and lay it out on a table. We work with what's alive right now, in this room, and let that illuminate everything else.
Psychotherapy: a place where the mind is formed
"It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self."—
— D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality
Who I Work With
Who I Work With
My patients are creative professionals: writers, designers, photographers, painters, musicians, architects, marketers, and entrepreneurs. People who live at the intersection of art and ambition.
Some are in Wicker Park and Bucktown, making work they believe in and wondering if wanting more makes them ungrateful or just awake. Some are in River North and the West Loop, running studios and leading teams, quietly aware that success doesn't feel the way they thought it would. Most of them are women or LGBTQ+.
Many of my patients are very good at their lives on paper, and quietly aware that something is missing.
What they have in common isn't a diagnosis. It's a particular kind of inner life. They feel things deeply. They notice things other people miss. They're good at what they do, sometimes very good, and still find themselves stuck in patterns they can't quite name.
Some have never been to therapy before and aren't sure it's for them. Some have tried it, found it too surface-level, and want something that actually goes somewhere. Some are in the middle of a career transition and realizing it's also something else, a question about identity, desire, or what kind of life they actually want.
If any of that sounds familiar, you're probably my kind of person.
Individual Session
$225 / 50-minute session
Payment due at time of service
Most people begin once per week. Psychoanalytic work is designed to be done twice weekly — a rhythm that allows for the depth and continuity this kind of work requires. We can discuss together what schedule makes sense for you.
Twice Weekly
$450 / two sessions per week
Recommended for psychoanalytic work
For those who want to move more deeply, twice-weekly sessions offer greater continuity and depth of work. This is the cadence most associated with real psychoanalytic process. We can discuss your goals and adjust over time.
Insurance & Superbills
I'm an out-of-network provider. If you have out-of-network benefits, I can provide a superbill for you to submit to your insurance company for possible reimbursement. In limited circumstances, I may offer a reduced fee based on financial need and availability.
Cancellation Policy
Sessions begin and end at the scheduled time. If you arrive late, we will use the remaining time. Because your appointment time is reserved specifically for you, the full session fee is charged for cancellations not made in advance or for missed appointments.
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