About Catherine
Dr. Catherine Alvarez, Ph.D. is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida who focuses on anxiety and related concerns. She brings 17 years of experience and a practical, down-to-earth approach to sessions.
She speaks English and works with clients from Florida and beyond. In sessions she uses approaches such as cognitive behavioral strategies, acceptance and commitment work, and attachment-focused ideas. She helps people spot thoughts and habits that keep anxiety active and then practices ways to change them.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with space for emotions and real-life problem solving. Her background includes long clinical experience helping people with stress, depression, grief, and trauma. She also addresses addictions, anger, sleep and eating concerns, and challenges that arise during life transitions.
Her practice pays attention to how early attachment and relationship patterns affect present-day struggles. Dr. Alvarez also supports people dealing with career strain, caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image, and self-esteem issues.
She uses skills from dialectical behavior work when emotions feel overwhelming, and acceptance-based tools when change feels hard. Practical tools and simple behavioral steps are a common part of the work. People who value a steady, empathetic listener tend to do well with her style.
She encourages small experiments between sessions to build confidence and reduce avoidance. Her aim is to make therapy feel manageable and relevant to everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values even when feelings are strong. It is often useful for anxiety, avoidance, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying negative thought patterns and testing them with practical behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve sleep or mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship experiences shape current patterns and helps people develop more supported ways of relating and managing emotional triggers.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to select methods that match goals and preferences. That might mean starting with CBT skills, adding acceptance strategies, or using attachment ideas to understand relationship struggles. The therapist adjusts plans as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and typical therapy tasks. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or getting support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and geographic limits.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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