Catherine Sechrist

Catherine Sechrist is a licensed counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, eating concerns, and major life changes. She brings nine years of practice to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use each day. Her style centers on building on strengths and working together toward reachable goals.

She uses several evidence-based approaches tailored to each person’s needs. Sessions often involve identifying unhelpful thinking, trying small behavior changes, and practicing new ways to respond to strong feelings. Catherine emphasizes a collaborative pace so people feel understood and in control of their progress.

Catherine’s work includes support for self-esteem, coping after trauma, compassion fatigue, and sleep difficulties. She also addresses career stress, workplace concerns, and financial worry alongside emotional symptoms like panic, phobias, and social anxiety. Body image and eating-related struggles are part of her focus when clients bring them up.

Her approach mixes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, client-centered listening, and solution-focused steps. Together these methods aim to reduce immediate distress and build skills that help over time. Catherine prefers to help people define small, practical changes that fit their daily life.

People who reach out will complete a short intake and work with her to set goals. Sessions are paced to match what each person needs, with attention to coping skills, emotion regulation, and problem-solving. She supports people as they try new strategies and adjust plans when needed.

How Catherine’s Approaches Work Online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It teaches values-based action so someone can move toward what matters despite hard emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thought and behavior patterns and builds small experiments to change unhelpful habits and ease symptoms. These approaches are useful for anxiety, depression, eating concerns, and stress related to life changes.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each client about goals and preferences, then try methods that fit that person. The process is collaborative: goals may shift as clients try new strategies and report what helps or doesn’t help.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow a shorter check-in by phone when time is tight, or reduce commuting time so appointments are simpler to attend. Licensed professionals can guide practical homework between meetings, coach new coping skills in weekly sessions, and adjust pacing to suit everyday life.