About Catherine
Catherine Heil is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns. She brings practical, down-to-earth support for issues like addiction, grief, self-esteem, anger, and coping with life changes. Her background also includes work with ADHD, bipolar concerns, and a range of sexual and intimacy-related issues.
She has twelve years as a clinician in direct therapeutic roles and many more years in social work overall.
How Catherine works
She has worked in inpatient psychiatric settings, outpatient clinics, and correctional institutions in Missouri. Catherine earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and holds a Missouri LCSW. Her style is warm and client-centered.
Sessions focus on achievable goals and hands-on tools. She uses techniques that help people spot unhelpful thinking, build new coping habits, and move toward meaningful values. Catherine commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify thinking patterns that feed unwanted emotions.
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas and Solution-Focused and Motivational Interviewing techniques to set small, useful steps forward. In sessions she listens, helps set clear goals, and practices skills with clients so change feels doable. The approach is straightforward and practical, aimed at helping people handle life stressors and regain a sense of direction.
Catherine lists 5 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice thought patterns that lead to distress and practice new behaviors that reduce symptoms. It is useful for anxiety, depression, OCD tendencies, and many everyday struggles. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on identifying personal values and taking steps toward them even when hard feelings remain. This approach helps with trauma aftereffects, life transitions, and ongoing stress. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way to build motivation for change by exploring personal goals and resolving ambivalence, which can help with addictions and behavior shifts.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what works. Clients and the therapist work together to decide which combination of techniques fits needs and preferences over time.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video sessions are good for a full face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities while still using evidence-based tools and practical strategies.
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