About Catrina
Catrina Switzer is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on anxiety, stress, trauma, low self-esteem, and depression. She notices small wins and helps people build practical steps toward feeling better. Her style is straightforward and warm, aimed at people who want clear tools and gentle encouragement.
She has practiced for 15 years and brings that experience to each session. Catrina works with people from a wide range of communities and cultures, including those who identify with geek, LGBTQ, AAPI, neurodivergent, chronically ill, and kink subcultures.
Background and approach
She listens for what matters most to each person and uses that as the starting point. In sessions she and the client set realistic goals together. Catrina uses conversational, skills-based methods such as cognitive behavioral methods, dialectical behavior approaches, and motivational interviewing when helpful.
She focuses on learning concrete tools that fit daily life rather than abstract ideas alone. She also helps people address related concerns like body image, relationship styles such as polyamory, family-of-origin issues, chronic pain or illness, and sexual identity or expression. The work often includes building coping skills, improving communication, and reducing shame and guilt.
People who work with Catrina can expect a collaborative, nonjudgmental approach that centers their values and community. She aims to help clients create lasting habits and clearer direction for their lives.
Evidence-based approaches and accessible online care
Many of Catrina's methods focus on teaching clear skills you can use right away. Cognitive behavioral approaches look at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and help you test and change unhelpful thinking patterns to reduce anxiety and low mood. Dialectical behavior approaches emphasize emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness to help people cope with intense feelings and improve relationships.Catrina treats the choice of approach as a joint decision. She works with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals, values, and day-to-day life, and then adapts tools to match those needs. The plan can change as progress is made and priorities shift.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video works well for in-depth weekly sessions, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing, shorter touchpoints between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and stay connected from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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