About Catherine
Catherine McLaughlin is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, grief, or problems with substance use. Catherine uses a direct but warm style and aims to make conversations straightforward and useful from the first session.
Catherine draws on several approaches to shape sessions around each person's needs. She uses cognitive behavioral methods to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of responding.
Background and approach
She offers client-centered listening to help people feel heard and to set goals that matter to them. Mindfulness techniques are woven into sessions when they help reduce panic, calm intense feelings, or build present-moment awareness. Motivational interviewing is used with people working through addictive behaviors or who want clearer direction to change.
Psychodynamic ideas may be brought in to look at repeated patterns and how past experiences influence current habits. Her work commonly addresses self-esteem, codependency, relationship problems, coping with life changes, and family stress. Catherine also supports people dealing with anger, dissociation, personality or mood disorders, and issues tied to trauma and abuse.
Sessions are practical and conversational. Catherine aims to set small, achievable steps so progress feels real. She encourages clients to name priorities and try strategies between sessions to build momentum toward their goals.
How Catherine’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s priorities. In sessions the therapist reflects concerns, helps clients set goals, and adapts pace to what feels manageable. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches tools to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful habits. Mindfulness therapy brings simple practices to calm racing thoughts and ground attention in the present moment.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Catherine will collaborate with each client to decide which methods to try first and will adjust based on how those strategies feel and what results emerge. The process is a partnership about goals, preferences, and practical steps.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options help people fit care into real life and keep work moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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