About Catherine
Catherine Wasson is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She offers straightforward support for mood struggles, relationship concerns, grief, and parenting strain. Her tone is practical and respectful to people from many backgrounds.
Catherine uses plain conversation to understand what matters most to each person. She draws on approaches that focus on thoughts and behaviors, brief solution work, mindfulness skills, and trauma-focused care when needed.
Background and approach
Together she and the client set small goals and track progress over time. She has seven years of experience working with people facing depression, bipolar challenges, panic attacks, and post-traumatic stress. That experience includes helping people cope with career setbacks, compassion fatigue, self-harm histories, and intimate relationship issues.
She also supports people navigating non-monogamous relationships and LGB T concerns. Catherine practices with the LICSW, LCSW, CSW credentials and holds licensure in Washington DC and Colorado as documented. She works from Virginia with sessions in English.
Her background includes direct work with people affected by physical trauma, emotional abuse, and housing instability. In sessions she focuses on clear steps you can try between meetings. That might include thought records, grounding and mindfulness exercises, or brief goal-focused tasks.
The aim is to make therapy feel useful and manageable for everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In practice this means identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying small behavioral experiments to test new ways of coping. It is often helpful for anxiety, panic attacks, and mood problems.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and collaboration. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflects what is said, and helps people clarify their own goals and values. This approach supports self-esteem work and relationship or identity concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Catherine will help figure out what fits based on goals, symptoms, and preferences. She often combines methods and adjusts the plan as progress is made so the process stays practical and responsive.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face dialogue, phone sessions can work well with low bandwidth, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people share between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to try different formats as needed.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Virginia, New Jersey, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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