About Catherine
Catherine Colardo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 13 years of practice. She focuses on practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and parenting strains. Catherine aims to listen, make a connection, and work beside each person as they find steps forward.
She trained in social work at Appalachian State University and earned a master of social work from the University of South Carolina. Her background includes helping people through life transitions, relationship and family conflicts, addiction concerns, and issues related to foster care and adoption.
How Catherine works
She has experience addressing compassion fatigue, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and anger management. Her style is warm, supportive, and person-centered. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, manageable steps.
Catherine uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing, along with acceptance and mindfulness techniques, to help people build skills and make changes that fit their life. In sessions she works to create a straightforward plan. Conversations cover current stressors, what has helped before, and practical strategies to try between meetings.
She helps people track progress and adjust plans when needed. Catherine emphasizes collaboration. She treats each person as the expert on their life while offering guidance and feedback.
Her approach is steady and goal-oriented, aimed at helping people regain balance and move through hard times.
Catherine lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values-driven action and can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete strategies to reduce distress and change unhelpful patterns.Catherine approaches treatment as a collaborative process. She will work together with each person to figure out which techniques fit their goals and needs. That means trying an approach, checking in on how it goes, and adjusting the plan if needed so it matches what actually helps.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow fuller conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to get support between sessions, send quick updates, or work through exercises when scheduling is tight. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while still using ACT, CBT, and mindfulness tools in practical ways.
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