About Athena
Athena McCaman is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) who uses a client-centered approach to help people manage stress and anxiety. She brings 12 years of experience supporting adults through depression, addiction, trauma, and life transitions. Athena writes plainly and listens closely to make therapy feel understandable and doable.
Athena focuses on practical skills that fit daily life. She draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and build new habits.
Background and approach
She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills to manage intense emotions and mindfulness techniques to reduce rumination. Her background includes work with people facing substance use and trauma-related concerns. That experience shapes how she responds to panic, addiction relapse triggers, and overwhelming stress.
She aims to help people regain control of their routines and choices. Sessions emphasize collaboration and steady progress. Athena helps clients set clear goals and practices small steps between meetings.
This often means skill-building exercises, breathing and grounding practices, and experimenting with new ways of coping. People who reach out can expect straightforward talk about problems and concrete strategies to try at home. Athena supports clients working through grief, relationship friction, parenting strain, shame, and feelings of isolation.
Her style is respectful, practical, and focused on what helps now and next.
How Athena's Approaches Work Online
Athena commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness in online sessions. CBT helps identify unhelpful thought patterns and replace them with more useful behaviors. Mindfulness teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and repetitive worry.She also brings dialectical behavior therapy skills into virtual work when strong emotions are present. DBT offers concrete tools for managing intense feelings, improving distress tolerance, and enhancing communication. These approaches are useful for anxiety, addiction triggers, relationship conflict, and coping with big life changes.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Athena will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences before choosing methods to try. She checks in regularly to see what’s helping and adjusts techniques so they fit the person’s pace and needs.
Online therapy gives flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction for skill teaching and EMDR work when appropriate. Phone sessions work well for lower bandwidth or when being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coping support, or day-to-day practice between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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