About Catherine
Catherine Powell is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and mood concerns. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical strategies people can use between sessions. Her style is calm and respectful, aimed at helping someone feel steadier in day-to-day life.
Catherine commonly supports people living with panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, bipolar mood shifts, and compassion fatigue. She also helps those facing chronic pain, illness, or the fallout from divorce and separation.
Background and approach
Sessions often center on identifying immediate coping tools and small changes that add up over time. Her work draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to build coping skills and restore a sense of purpose. Catherine creates space for people to talk through hard experiences and to make concrete plans for managing symptoms.
She focuses on what can be done now, while recognizing recovery is a step-by-step process. Across six years of practice she has developed familiarity with dissociation, grief after loss, and the emotional impact of long-term health problems. Catherine uses that experience to tailor sessions to each person's pace and goals.
Her approach is steady and solution-oriented without glossing over difficult feelings. People who meet with her typically leave with clearer next steps and practical strategies to try between sessions. She explains options in everyday language and checks in about what is and isn’t working.
The emphasis is on collaboration and realistic progress rather than quick fixes.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Many clients benefit from techniques that teach practical coping skills and help process difficult memories. One approach focuses on building skills for managing anxiety and panic by practicing grounding, breathing, and stepwise exposure to feared situations. This helps reduce immediate distress and makes daily life feel more manageable. Another approach centers on working through trauma and its aftereffects by carefully processing upsetting memories and strengthening emotion regulation. That work aims to reduce intrusive symptoms and improve overall resilience.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review your history, current needs, and goals, and then recommend techniques to try together. Sessions are adjusted over time based on what is most helpful and what the client prefers.
Online therapy here is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a lunch break, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to get consistent care around work, appointments, and daily life.
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- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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