https://therapyhaus.com/home daily 1.0 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bcb9b39f7266e8fc7c2b2b/3058d884-63df-4020-84d5-52bb51dda6bc/TherapyHausHero.jpg Chicago Psychotherapist Kate Farrell, LCPC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bcb9b39f7266e8fc7c2b2b/d7519f11-a1bf-48b6-a511-f2368e7b08a3/aboutpic2.PNG Chicago Psychotherapist Kate Farrell, LCPC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bcb9b39f7266e8fc7c2b2b/1503604018776-0F3KEAQIK9NKQH1MOEVA/kate-farrell-therapy.jpg Chicago Psychotherapist Kate Farrell, LCPC - 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 are 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 will 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. 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.Many of the people who find their way to me feel stuck in painful relationship patterns, overwhelming self-criticism, or a quiet sense that something isn't working the way it should. 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 are 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 will 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bcb9b39f7266e8fc7c2b2b/652fe61e-14c2-4607-801e-828186222e5a/chiskyline+sketch.png Chicago Psychotherapist Kate Farrell, LCPC - 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. 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