About Catherine
Catherine Pettus is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, anger, and low self-esteem. She practices in Arkansas and offers online sessions in English. Catherine focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier in daily life.
Catherine uses a mix of approaches including cognitive behavioral ideas, attachment-informed work, dialectical behavior skills, client-centered conversation, and mindfulness practices. She aims to match strategies to each person's needs instead of using the same plan for everyone.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented, with room for personal storytelling when that helps. Her background includes long-term work with clients facing loss, caregiver strain, relationship and family-of-origin concerns, and the effects of abandonment or codependency. She has supported people dealing with aging and geriatric issues as well as those coping with guilt, shame, or isolation.
Practical coping skills and clearer communication are common focuses in her work. Catherine describes her style as warm and interactive. She avoids stigmatizing labels and emphasizes respect, dignity, and honesty.
Her role is to advocate for clients and help them find inner strength while tailoring dialog and plans to individual situations. People who come for help can expect straightforward language, step-by-step coping tools, and attention to what matters most to them. She supports clients through life changes and common concerns like phobias by building skills and steadying routines.
How therapeutic approaches support online care
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. It teaches specific skills for managing anxiety, stress, and phobias by breaking problems into small, practical steps.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape emotional patterns and coping. It helps people notice how past hurts influence current reactions and builds new ways of relating to feelings and others.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Catherine collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Together they try strategies, review what helps, and adjust the plan as needed.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions can be a good fit when video is not possible or when a simpler check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging provide short, flexible ways to touch base between sessions or to use skills in the moment. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas
- Languages
- English
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