About Caitlin
Caitlin Eshelman is a licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, and major life changes. She practices in the District of Columbia and focuses on building a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can bring hard topics and feel heard. Her work often addresses relationship concerns, grief, and struggles with self-esteem.
She also supports people who are processing trauma, intimacy questions, or the aftermath of separation and loss.
Background and approach
Caitlin pays attention to how attachment and abandonment issues shape current patterns. Caitlin uses practical methods that aim to shift thinking and behavior in everyday life. She draws on cognitive behavioral approaches to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts.
She also uses client-centered techniques to follow each person's pace and priorities. For people recovering from traumatic experiences, Caitlin incorporates trauma-focused strategies to reduce overwhelming reactions and increase coping. Solution-focused ideas are used when clients want concrete steps and short-term goals to improve day-to-day functioning.
Sessions are offered in English and include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Caitlin describes therapy as a collaborative process where goals are set together and adjusted as needed. She aims to help people find clearer ways of handling anxiety, panic, mood swings, and relationship challenges.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's priorities. The therapist offers empathy and reflects what matters most so people can decide next steps. This approach helps when someone needs to feel understood before trying new coping strategies.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It includes practical exercises to reduce anxiety and panic and to change patterns that keep problems going. CBT is often helpful for mood disorders and repetitive worry because it gives clear skills to practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with clients to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That plan can change over time as progress or new challenges appear.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients check in between appointments or use shorter, more frequent touchpoints. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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