About Cathalene
Cathalene Silver is a licensed therapist with 30 years of clinical experience. She holds an IL LCPC and an IL LMFT and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She creates an affirming space for people exploring identity and intimacy issues.
Her work draws on practical, evidence-based approaches. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach skills for coping and managing strong emotions.
How Cathalene works
She also uses Attachment-Based and Client-Centered methods to strengthen connection and self-understanding. Clients bring many kinds of concerns to sessions. Cathalene helps with grief, addiction, compassion fatigue, career transitions, and self-esteem problems.
She also supports people facing chronic illness, caregiver strain, and the challenges of aging. She offers a clear, steady style that focuses on what helps in daily life. Sessions include skill practice, values clarification, and problem-solving tailored to each person's needs.
The aim is to build tools that work outside the therapy room. Cathalene works with people who want to change patterns that keep them stuck. She addresses attachment wounds, abandonment fears, body image concerns, communication problems, and issues tied to blended families and divorce.
Her goal is to help people move forward with more confidence and clarity.
Cathalene lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
What Cathalene works with
The areas below are the ones Cathalene selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCPC, LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small committed steps toward those values. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors to reduce symptoms like low mood or worry. It is action-oriented and useful for depression and anxiety. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and trust, and it can help with intimacy, abandonment fears, and communication problems.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist works collaboratively to choose methods that match a person's concerns, goals, and preferences. Together they try techniques, see what helps, and adjust the plan as needed so the work feels useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text can be helpful for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to connect around work, caregiving, or other time constraints while using approaches that translate well to remote formats.
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