About Catherine
Catherine Sittig is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with seven years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, depression, trauma, and relationship strain. Catherine works in a direct, supportive way and encourages people to use their own strengths as the foundation for change.
She starts by listening to each person's story and what matters most to them. Catherine believes people already know a lot about their lives, so she helps them connect strengths to practical steps.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit what the person needs right now. Catherine uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address anxiety, mood concerns, and reactions to trauma. She helps people learn skills to manage symptoms, handle strong emotions, and improve everyday functioning.
The work often includes practicing new ways of coping between sessions. She also supports people dealing with attachment questions, communication struggles, control issues, guilt, shame, and obsessive thoughts or behaviors. Catherine draws on her experience with post-traumatic stress and grief to help people rebuild routine and meaning after loss or difficult events.
Therapy with Catherine is practical and straightforward. She aims to make sessions clear and useful so progress can show in daily life. Conversations cover both immediate relief and longer-term growth, and she helps people set realistic steps toward their goals.
Evidence-based approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Two evidence-based approaches commonly used to address anxiety and trauma are skills-based work and trauma-informed strategies. Skills-based work focuses on teaching concrete tools for managing worry, panic, and daily stress. It often includes short exercises to practice between sessions to reduce symptoms and improve coping.Trauma-informed strategies pay attention to how past painful events affect current reactions. These strategies help people notice triggers, regulate strong emotions, and rebuild a sense of safety in everyday routines. Both approaches aim to make small, manageable changes that add up over time.
Finding the best approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That collaborative process lets the plan be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people see nonverbal cues and work more deeply in real time. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a calmer, audio-only check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging make quick check-ins and brief coaching possible between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy around work, family, and daily life, while keeping focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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