About Catherine
Dr. Catherine Alvarez, Ph.D. offers a straightforward, practical approach to therapy. She uses clear methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction.
Dr. Alvarez is a Florida licensed mental health counselor - LMHC - with 17 years of experience helping people find steadier footing. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and patterns.
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take meaningful action.
How Catherine works
Attachment-based work appears in sessions when relationship patterns or intimacy issues are the focus. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. People can expect tools to handle anger, sleep problems, grief, and compassion fatigue as well as support for career questions and self-esteem work.
The therapist also addresses complex concerns such as trauma, eating challenges, bipolar disorder, ADHD, chronic illness, and caregiver stress. Dr. Alvarez has worked with a wide range of life changes and relational struggles.
She supports parents facing the strain of caregiving and individuals managing blended family concerns, communication problems, codependency, and commitment worries. Her approach favors small, practical steps that can be used between sessions. Clients may choose video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She welcomes people who prefer English and accepts international clients. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session through the website.
Catherine lists 18 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
- 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
What Catherine works with
The areas below are the ones Catherine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Dr. Alvarez blends practical, evidence-based methods to guide work in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors to improve mood and daily functioning; it is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and some eating concerns. Acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and commit to actions that match those values while learning to sit with difficult feelings. Attachment-based therapy looks at patterns from close relationships and helps people change how they relate and connect with others, which can help intimacy and communication problems.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to see which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean using different tools across sessions and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility and convenience. Video calls let people see nonverbal cues and work more like in-person sessions. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief, timely support between meetings or a written way to process thoughts. These options make it simpler to schedule care around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping treatment consistent and accessible.
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