About Catherine
Dr. Catherine Alvarez, Ph.D. is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood issues, and life transitions. She brings 17 years of clinical experience and a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions.
Her work includes support for ADHD alongside concerns like depression, grief, trauma, and relationship struggles. She prefers simple, direct conversations that help people make small changes that add up. Sessions often include skills for managing strong emotions, improving sleep, and handling impulsive behaviors.
Background and approach
She uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to shape helpful habits and reduce distress. Dr. Alvarez also draws on attachment-based and client-centered methods to strengthen relationships and build emotional understanding.
That can look like practicing new ways to communicate, noticing patterns that cause conflict, and learning practical steps to feel more stable day to day. She aims to create a space where people can talk without judgment and try tools that fit their life.
Her background includes long-term clinical work in Florida and experience with a wide range of concerns from addiction and bipolar symptoms to caregiver stress and chronic illness. People come for both short-term coping strategies and longer work on patterns that keep causing pain.
Therapy sessions are available in English and can be scheduled online by completing a short matching questionnaire and arranging appointments that fit each person’s schedule.
Approach and online therapy that fits your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to values-based actions. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and managing symptoms that get in the way of daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change patterns like sleep problems, avoidance, or low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand how past relationship experiences shape current patterns and offers ways to build more stable connections and better communication.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, daily challenges, and preferences. Together they pick or blend methods that match the person’s needs and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers a range of formats to suit different situations. Video calls are good for in-depth sessions and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit brief updates or coping questions into a busy day. These options help people keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- 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
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- 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
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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