About Cathryn
Cathryn Charette is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who brings five years of clinical experience to her work in California. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, addictions, and ADHD. Her approach centers on each person's strengths and practical steps they can use day to day.
Cathryn emphasizes self-awareness and mindfulness so clients can respond to life more intentionally. She helps people notice patterns, set healthier boundaries, and make choices that match their values.
Background and approach
Sessions are grounded in real-life skills rather than abstract theory. She combines several evidence-informed methods to tailor sessions to each person. That can mean practicing new ways of thinking, learning emotion regulation skills, or exploring attachment patterns that affect relationships and self-esteem.
Cathryn explains techniques in plain language and checks in about what feels useful. People who have had painful early relationships or trauma often work on repairing their sense of self and building what some clinicians call earned security. Cathryn guides that work in a patient, nonjudgmental way and supports gradual change at a comfortable pace.
Her style is warm and direct. She aims to help people clarify goals, build coping tools, and practice them between sessions. The emphasis is on practical progress so daily life becomes easier to manage.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by building small, value-driven habits. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going. It often includes practice exercises and small experiments to reduce worry, manage mood, and address avoidance. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship experiences shape expectations and reactions in current relationships; it helps people explore patterns that affect intimacy, trust, and self-worth.Finding the right approach is part of the work and will be collaborative. The therapist and client will review goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. That means sessions can mix ACT, CBT, and attachment-focused ideas to match the person's needs and preferences.
Online formats offer flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls let you use visual cues and do shared exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to use a camera. Live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins, on-the-go coaching, and follow-up between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or school routines while keeping consistent therapeutic progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- 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
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- 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
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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