About Catherine
Catherine Valentine is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and depression. She focuses on building confidence, improving motivation, and strengthening coping skills. She meets people where they are and treats them as the expert of their own story.
Her style is straightforward and respectful. Sessions center on practical steps that can be used between appointments. She draws on evidence-based methods to help reduce anxious thoughts, manage intense emotions, and improve day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
Catherine uses a mix of cognitive behavioral work and acceptance-based strategies. That can mean noticing unhelpful thought patterns, practicing new ways to respond, and learning how to act in line with personal values. Mindfulness practices are offered to help with sleep, stress, and emotional regulation.
She also integrates client-centered listening and skills from dialectical behavior therapy where helpful. This combination supports people dealing with relationship strain, addiction concerns, changes in life roles, and trauma-related reactions. Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Over the years Catherine has worked with a wide range of concerns including parenting stress, caregiver strain, chronic illness, body image, and first responder issues. She communicates in English and practices from Illinois as an LCPC. If someone is ready to begin, she guides them through simple next steps to set up a first appointment.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, low motivation, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and improve emotional balance, which can support sleep, anger, and trauma-related symptoms.Finding the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will discuss goals, try different tools, and adjust methods based on what works best for the person. Clients are invited to give feedback and help shape the focus of sessions so the work stays relevant and manageable.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills work and check-ins. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging are good for brief check-ins, skills practice, or when scheduling needs to fit around work and caregiving. These options let people fit therapy into their daily routines and maintain regular progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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