About Caterina
Caterina (Cathe) Hutchison is a licensed independent social worker who uses practical, goal-focused methods to address anxiety, stress, depression, and phobias. She brings 23 years of experience and a steady, listening approach to sessions. Cathe aims to help people take small, useful steps toward feeling better and managing day-to-day challenges.
Her practice combines cognitive behavioral techniques with solution-focused conversations and motivational interviewing. That means she helps clients spot unhelpful thinking, try new behaviors, set clear short-term goals, and find personal motivation to change.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversation-based and oriented toward real life tasks rather than long theoretical explanations. Cate has worked broadly across life stages and life situations, drawing on experience with trauma and abuse, chronic health conditions, parenting stresses, relationship and communication problems, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder.
She also supports people navigating issues like abandonment, attachment concerns, blended family dynamics, and caregiver strain. In meetings she listens closely, asks practical questions, and helps clients build step-by-step plans they can use between sessions. She uses short exercises and concrete strategies to address problems such as panic, avoidance, low self-esteem, and persistent worry.
Progress is tracked in ways that make sense for each person. People who choose her work with a clinician who aims to be direct, compassionate, and outcome-oriented. She helps people identify what matters most to them and then focuses sessions on achievable changes that fit each person’s daily life.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Online CBT sessions often include brief exercises, thought records, and behavioral experiments that clients can practice between meetings to reduce anxiety and avoidant behavior.Motivational Interviewing focuses on finding and strengthening a person’s own reasons to change. In remote conversations this looks like guided questions, reflective listening, and setting small steps that match the client’s values and readiness.
Solution-Focused Therapy centers on what is working now and on building practical next steps. Online meetings can be tightly goal-oriented, so each session produces simple actions a person can try immediately.
Choosing the best approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each client about goals, preferences, and what has helped in the past, then adjust methods as progress unfolds. Sessions are collaborative and revisited as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging lets clients reflect in writing. These options make it easier to keep momentum and use strategies where and when they are needed.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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