About Catherine
Catherine (Cate) Beaton is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) who draws on a practical, person-focused approach to help people manage anxiety and related concerns. She brings 15 years of clinical experience and a background in emergency care to the work. Cate emphasizes connection and simple, usable strategies in sessions.
Cate began her career as a paramedic in Hartford, Connecticut, and that early work shaped her sense of urgency about emotional as well as physical suffering.
Background and approach
She later completed a master’s degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University and an Educational Specialist Degree in School Psychology. She also has extensive continuing education in trauma and behavior. As a former Clinical and Executive Director, she supervised clinicians for about 10 years.
That leadership role taught her how to support people who help others and how teamwork and clear communication matter in care. Supervision work also reinforced her belief that a strong therapeutic relationship helps progress. In sessions she combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral tools, client-centered listening, and trauma-focused methods when helpful.
Clients can expect straightforward talk about coping skills, values-based choices, and ways to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior. Therapy often includes practice between meetings to build new habits. Cate works with a broad range of concerns including stress, trauma and abuse, parenting pressures, career issues, grief, mood disorders, and addiction-related struggles.
She also supports people facing caregiver strain, attachment questions, postpartum depression, and first responder issues. Her practice is based in Vermont and sessions are offered in English.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety work
Cate commonly blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered listening when working online. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to meaningful actions that match their values, which can reduce struggle with anxiety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and homework that build new patterns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathic listening and meeting a person where they are to strengthen the working relationship and aid emotional processing.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Cate will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person’s goals and preferences. She will check in about what helps, adjust techniques as needed, and offer tools that can be practiced between sessions.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier on low bandwidth or when a camera is not wanted, live chat works for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports short updates or check-ins between meetings. These formats provide flexibility to fit work, caregiving, or other schedules while still focusing on progress and skill-building.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Vermont, New Hampshire
- Languages
- English
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