About Catherine
Catherine Johnston is a licensed professional counselor with 21 years of experience in Michigan. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with depression, and address addictions. Catherine speaks plainly and works to make therapy feel practical and manageable for everyday life.
Her work centers on clear goals and steady progress. She uses strategies that help people notice patterns in thoughts and behavior, try small changes, and build habits that fit their life.
Background and approach
Sessions often include straightforward skills practice and discussion about what is getting in the way of feeling better. Catherine pays close attention to relationships and personal transitions. She helps people sort through issues such as communication problems, divorce and separation, blended family challenges, and caregiver stress.
She also supports those facing grief, trauma and abuse, and the aftereffects of domestic violence. Many clients come for help with work-related strain, compassion fatigue, or career changes. Catherine also addresses intimacy-related issues, self-esteem, anger, and feelings of emptiness.
She draws on practical tools to help people manage cravings and recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. In sessions she combines acceptance-based ideas with cognitive and mindfulness practices. The aim is to help people act in line with their values while reducing symptoms that get in the way.
Catherine encourages a collaborative pace so people can try new ways of coping without feeling overwhelmed.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take action that lines up with their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like worry or low mood. It often includes homework and practical skill-building between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Catherine will discuss goals, try methods that fit the client's preferences, and adjust the plan based on what helps. This collaborative process aims to match techniques to each person's situation rather than relying on one fixed method.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are good for face-to-face conversation and skills demonstrations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers voice only. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflection, or ongoing coaching-style support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and maintain continuity during life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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