About Catherine
Catherine Pettus is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Arkansas who brings 15 years of clinical experience to her work. She focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, anger, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Her manner is warm and patient, aimed at helping people feel heard and respected from the first conversation.
Catherine uses straightforward talking and practical tools in sessions. She listens for patterns in relationships and daily life, then helps people try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill-building for emotion regulation, problem solving, and clearer communication. She draws on approaches such as attachment-based work to look at early relationship patterns and how they affect current behavior. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Mindfulness and distress-tolerance skills can be added to manage strong feelings in the moment. Catherine has supported people through caregiver stress, loss, divorce and family-of-origin issues. She also addresses concerns like codependency, guilt and shame, isolation, and questions about life purpose.
Her tone is nonjudgmental and respectful, avoiding stigmatizing labels while helping people identify realistic next steps. Clients who choose her can expect collaborative goal-setting and a plan shaped to their needs. She adapts the conversation and tools to each person rather than following a fixed script.
If someone wants steady support for practical coping and clearer relationships, she offers that steady presence and guidance.
Therapeutic approaches for online care and coping
Catherine uses attachment-based work to look at how early relationship patterns affect current feelings and behavior. This approach helps people understand why they react a certain way in relationships and offers ways to build more stable connections.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new, more helpful ways of thinking and acting. CBT is often useful for anxiety, stress, and problems that repeat over time. Mindfulness techniques are added at times to help notice thoughts and bodily reactions without getting swept away by them, which can be helpful for strong emotions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels useful, then tailor sessions accordingly. This collaborative approach means techniques can be adjusted as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls let for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging provide shorter check-ins or ongoing written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to choose a format that feels most comfortable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas
- Languages
- English
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