About William
Dr. William Keating is a licensed psychologist in Illinois with 35 years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD while supporting those facing major life changes.
He aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and straightforward. He creates an open space where people can talk about thoughts and feelings without judgment. Sessions are practical and goal‑oriented, with attention to everyday challenges like work demands, sleep disruption, and motivation.
Background and approach
He also offers coaching-style support when clients want concrete strategies to move forward. William uses clear, evidence-informed methods to break problems into smaller steps. He draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns and try different responses.
For relationship concerns he applies elements of the Gottman Method to improve communication and rebuild trust. His background includes decades of clinical work across a wide range of concerns, including trauma and intimacy-related issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and body image. That experience helps him tailor sessions to what each person needs right now.
He works at a pace chosen with the client and focuses on skills that can be used between sessions. People who prefer direct, practical guidance often find his style useful. He offers sessions in English and accepts international clients.
For those who want to start, he guides them through scheduling and matching so they can begin work on specific goals.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Dr. Keating uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking and try practical behavior changes. CBT focuses on small experiments and new routines to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood.He also incorporates the Gottman Method when relationship issues arise; this involves learning clearer communication skills, managing conflict, and rebuilding trust through structured exercises and conversations.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. He will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then suggest methods to try together. Clients and the therapist decide on pace and which techniques to emphasize as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow therapy to fit different schedules and needs. Video sessions are useful for in-depth work and demonstrations; phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited; live chat and messaging support quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options help people continue work on skills even with busy lives or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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