About Cathrine
Cathrine Kearns is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or life changes. She works with individuals facing relationship and family concerns, LGBTQ issues, trauma, mood changes, and struggles like sleep or eating problems.
Cathrine aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly and take steps forward. She draws on practical methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help people change unhelpful thoughts and manage strong emotions.
Background and approach
Cathrine also uses solution-focused and motivational strategies to set small, realistic goals and build momentum. When trauma is part of the story, she incorporates trauma-focused methods to address symptoms and improve daily functioning. Cathrine’s sessions are collaborative.
She works with each person to outline goals and chooses concrete skills to try between sessions. Expect short experiments, thought records, and simple mindfulness practices to test what helps most in real life. Her background includes master’s level training in counseling, psychology, and social work, and two decades of clinical practice in Florida.
That experience includes supporting people through caregiving stress, chronic illness, adoption and attachment concerns, and major life transitions. Cathrine offers sessions in English and works with international clients as well. People can access therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Scheduling follows a matching and booking process so clients can find a format that fits their daily routine.
How Cathrine brings therapy approaches online
Cathrine commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness practices to help people manage worries and change unhelpful thinking. Cognitive behavioral therapy involves identifying thought patterns, testing them with real-life experiments, and practicing new behaviors to reduce anxiety or depression. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing exercises that help reduce reactivity and improve sleep and emotional regulation.She also relies on motivational interviewing to help people find personal reasons to change and to set small, achievable goals. The process is collaborative - the therapist and client decide together which methods to try based on the client’s goals, comfort, and day-to-day needs. Adjustments are made as progress is tracked so the approach fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow for flexible ways to stay consistent. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skills practice, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can support quick check-ins or coaching between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while maintaining regular progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- 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
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- 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
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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