About Cathryn
Cathryn Ahanonu is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of experience based in Wyoming. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and related life challenges. Her manner is warm and interactive and she aims to treat people with respect and compassion.
She uses a blend of approaches to match each person's needs. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on building on strengths.
Background and approach
Cathryn avoids stigmatizing labels and works to create a respectful space for sharing thoughts and feelings. In practical terms she helps people learn skills for managing strong emotions, coping with life changes, and navigating relationship or family problems. She also supports people facing mood disorders, addictions, and challenges like seasonal affective disorder and ADHD.
Cathryn can help with grief, guilt and shame, self-harm concerns, and issues common to young adults. Her work combines client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches, plus trauma-focused methods when needed. EMDR and motivational interviewing are also part of her clinical toolbox and used when appropriate to a person's goals.
Cathryn offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their schedule and needs.
Approaches that guide online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience without judgment. It helps people feel heard while they talk through stress, anxiety, family concerns, and life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thinking patterns and behaviors that keep problems going. It teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and build coping strategies for mood issues, anxiety, and stress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers tools for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal skills. It can be useful for people who want concrete techniques for emotion regulation and relationship challenges.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, history, and preferences and then recommend how to combine methods. That plan can change as people learn what works best for them during sessions.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible for different routines and needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming
- Languages
- English
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