Katelyn Kapelinski, MA, LMHC, NCC
Merrillville, Telehealth

Education
School:
Valparaiso University
Degree:
MA
Additional Certificates:
BS from Ball State University
LMHC
NCC
Katelyn Kapelinski is a graduate of Valparaiso University, where she received her Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She is a Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC) and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC).
Katelyn specializes in working with adolescents and also has experience working with children, families, young adults, and individuals struggling with addiction. She is skilled in utilizing techniques from Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Reality Therapy, and Experiential Therapy. Her background includes co-creating a behavior management program for teens, providing individual and group counseling in a school-based day treatment program for middle and high school students facing academic, behavioral, and mental health challenges, co-facilitating an anger management group, and leading team-building activities for children on an outdoor ropes course.
Katelyn provides counseling in the following areas: depression, anxiety, trauma, oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, anger/aggression, borderline personality traits, suicidal ideation, life transitions, addiction, LGBTQ issues, familial conflict, social skills, and self-esteem concerns.
Issues Treated
- Addiction
- Adolescents
- Adoption
- Alchohol Use
- Anger Management
- Antisocial Personality
- Anxiety
- Behavioral Issues
- Bipolar Disorder
- Bisexual
- Borderline Personality
- Child or Adolescent
- Chronic Impulsivity
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Domestic Abuse
- Dual Diagnosis
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Gay
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Infidelity
- Lesbian
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Mood Disorders
- Narcissistic Personality
- Obsessive-Compulsive
- Oppositional Defiance
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Personality Disorders
- Racial Identity
- Relationship Issues
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Self-Harming
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Substance Use
- Suicidal Ideation
- Teen Violence
- Thinking Disorders
- Transgender
- Trauma and PTSD
- Women's Issues
Session Types
Telehealth
Individual Therapy
Age Specialties
- adolescent
- adult
Types of Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
Adlerian
Clinical Supervision and Licensed Supervisors
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Dialectical (DBT)
Existential
Experiential Therapy
Exposure Response Prevention
Humanistic
Integrative
Interpersonal
Person-Centered
Reality Therapy
Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
Strength-Based
Trauma-Focused
