About Catherine
Catherine Kimrey is a licensed clinician with 18 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. She holds LMHC and LPCC credentials and practices from a place of warmth and practical support. Catherine focuses on creating a calm space where people can speak openly and start looking for realistic steps forward.
She uses straightforward conversation to help people understand what feels overwhelming. Sessions often look at thoughts and behaviors that keep stress and worry active.
Background and approach
Catherine mixes practical problem-solving with exercises that increase self-awareness and emotional regulation. Catherine also supports those coping with losses and major life transitions. She offers ways to work through guilt, shame, and isolation while building small habits that improve mood and motivation.
Relationship concerns are approached with attention to communication patterns and personal boundaries. Her work includes attention to aging and caregiver stress, blended family challenges, and midlife concerns. She draws on client-centered methods to keep the client's goals central, and uses cognitive behavioral and mindfulness techniques to create change that can be measured in daily life.
Catherine aims to make the therapy process understandable and doable. She helps people set small, clear goals and checks progress together. The focus is on building practical tools that fit each person’s life and strengths.
How Catherine blends approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy places the person’s goals and values at the center of each session. Catherine listens first, then shapes sessions around what matters most to the individual and their immediate concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Catherine uses CBT to help people spot unhelpful thinking, try new responses, and measure small changes in mood or behavior over time.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. These techniques can help with persistent worry, stress, and rumination by building short daily habits.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Catherine collaborates with clients to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress is made or priorities shift.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat can help with quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to try different formats until the best fit is found.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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