About Caitlin
Caitlin Merritt is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Tennessee who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and ADHD. She uses a down-to-earth style and aims to make therapy practical and straightforward. Many clients come for help with relationships, parenting struggles, career concerns, grief, and mood challenges.
Caitlin trained for a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
Background and approach
She has five years of experience as a psychotherapist and has worked with a wide range of concerns including bipolar disorder, body image, adoption and foster care topics, and young adult issues. Her sessions are interactive and solution-focused. She mixes methods to match each person's needs, drawing on cognitive-behavioral ideas, psychodynamic thinking, and trauma-informed work.
Conversations aim to identify patterns, test what helps, and build manageable skills for day-to-day life. In a typical appointment she listens for what matters most to the client, outlines practical steps, and checks progress each session. She works with people to set clear goals and adjust plans as things change.
The approach emphasizes collaboration and small, steady changes. People who want straightforward guidance and tools often find this style helpful. Caitlin frames therapy as a team process where the client's goals shape the work.
She welcomes questions and focuses on making therapy feel useful from the start.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions teach practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and build coping tools for anxiety, depression, and mood challenges.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects back what matters, and helps people gain clarity about their goals and values.
Caitlin will work collaboratively to find the best fit. She talks with each person about needs, goals, and preferences and adapts methods over time so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people keep visual connection for deeper conversations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat or text messaging can be good for quick check-ins, brief problem-solving, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people keep therapy consistent with busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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