Katie Hatches (she/they)

MA, LPC
Accepting Clients

I am a clinical mental health counselor who seeks to radically reimagine what care looks like outside of carceral systems of harm.

Licensed Professional Counselor in Illinois
Supervised by Andrew Hazzard, LCSW

Services
  • Individual
  • Couples

About My Clients

I believe in the transformational nature of community and the process of intentional repair within relationships. I work with clients to better understand how various systems of oppression impact and serve as barriers to how we show up in relationship with ourselves, others, land, and more. I know you hold deep, intergenerational wisdom and my role is to facilitate your innate ability to connect with and allow it to move you.

My Background and Approach

My background includes individuals living with trauma, dissociation, anxiety, depression, gender and/or racial identity development, personality disorders, life transitions, and relationship concerns, including intimate partner violence. I enjoy working with adults and relationship structures of all forms. I prioritize using trauma-informed and relational approaches, which may include Internal Family Systems Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and attachment-based approaches. I utilize somatic interventions as well when appropriate. Regardless of my approach, I incorporate abolitionist principles to this work.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I believe that everyone is inherently worthy of relationship and connection to themselves, others, and the world around them. We are inextricably connected. I also hold that therapy does not occur in a vacuum and is, therefore, inherently a political space. I know from my own lived experience how difficult it can be to find care that is safe enough to say your deepest grief and longings, especially for Black, queer, TGNC, and disabled community members. You are deserving of being held, softly, and without judgement or expectation.

Techniques I Use

Specialties
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Internal Family Systems
Other Techniques
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Attachment Theory
  • Couples Counseling
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Harm Reduction Therapy
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Relational Therapy
  • Somatic Therapy: Body-Based Healing for Emotional Trauma
  • Internal Family Systems

Issues I Treat

Specialties
Attachment Dissociative Disorders Systemic Oppression Therapy
Other Issues
  • Abuse
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment
  • Body Image Issues
  • Depression
  • Dissociative Disorders
  • Domestic Violence or Intimate Partner Violence
  • Gender Identity Therapy
  • Grief or Loss
  • Historical/ Intergenerational Trauma
  • LGBTQ-Friendly Therapists
  • Personality Disorders
  • Polyamorous and Open Relationships
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Relationship Issues
  • Self-Esteem
  • Sexual Abuse or Assault
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • Systemic Oppression Therapy
Insurance Plans Accepted
  • Aetna
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS)
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO
I offer online counseling in the following states:

At A Glance

  • Experience: 3 years of practice
  • Languages: English
  • Rate: $130 - 165/session

Reach out to Katie