Kathyrn Chociej, LICSW

Kathyrn Chociej is a Washington-licensed clinician with 10 years of professional experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma, abuse, and grief. She brings a strengths-based perspective that recognizes each person as the expert of their own story, and she centers clients own resources as part of the path to change.

Kathyrn offers practical support for LGBTQ+ related concerns, coping with loss, and the complex emotions that accompany life transitions. Her approach emphasizes collaboration, helping clients identify goals, build skills, and take steps toward a more fulfilling life. She acknowledges the courage involved in seeking help and aims to create an encouraging space for growth.

She holds the credential LICSW, which stands for Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, reflecting advanced clinical training in social work and clinical practice. Kathyrn is committed to empowering people to navigate difficult circumstances and to discover the strengths that will support lasting change.

Evidence-Based Approaches for Online Healing and Support

Kathyrn uses evidence-based techniques that are adapted to online formats to help clients manage symptoms and build skills. She employs cognitive and behavioral strategies that help identify unhelpful thought patterns and develop practical coping skills for anxiety, stress, and day-to-day challenges. These techniques emphasize skill-building, problem solving, and behavior changes that can reduce distress and improve functioning.

She also draws on trauma-informed approaches that focus on safety, pacing, and understanding how past experiences affect present reactions. This work supports people processing trauma, abuse, and related relational impacts while attending to emotional and physical responses. For grief and loss, she offers targeted support that helps people navigate mourning, adjust to change, and find ways to carry forward meaning.

Finding the right combination of approaches is a collaborative process. Kathyrn works with each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting techniques as therapy progresses to ensure the best fit. Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to access care around work, caregiving, mobility, and geographic constraints. Licensed professionals can adapt these methods effectively in remote formats to help clients move toward their goals.