About Cathryn
Cathryn Charette is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She draws on five years of clinical experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship and intimacy concerns. Her style is warm and patient and aimed at helping clients feel understood and more capable in daily life.
She centers work on strengths and self-awareness. Sessions focus on learning skills that fit each person’s values and goals.
Background and approach
Cathryn uses mindfulness and simple behavioral tools to help people respond to difficult moments instead of reacting to them. Cathryn helps clients examine attachment patterns and how early relationships affect current trust and boundaries. She offers practical strategies to build healthier connections and stronger self-esteem.
This can include communication practice and developing clearer personal limits. Her approach borrows from several methods such as acceptance and commitment work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and emotion-focused ideas. She adapts methods to match what a client needs that week, keeping language plain and steps concrete.
Therapy conversations are collaborative and paced to each person’s comfort. Cathryn also addresses issues like addiction, eating concerns, parenting stress, chronic health challenges, caregiving strain, and compassion fatigue. She supports people coping with life changes and helps them find steady ways to move forward.
Her aim is to help clients build practical routines and a clearer sense of self.
Therapy Approaches and Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and small actions that move someone toward a life they care about. It helps people face anxiety and difficult feelings while still living in ways that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change patterns that feed anxiety and depression. It emphasizes practice and measurable steps to feel better over time.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they try methods, check what works, and shift strategies when needed so the plan fits the client’s life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls give a face-to-face feel and work well for in-depth sessions. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send short updates, get coaching between sessions, or use flexible check-ins that fit a busy day. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting sessions into real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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