About Catherine
Catherine Kluge is a Licensed Professional Counselor who builds care around each person's story. She practices in Missouri and draws on 25 years of experience to help people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or in transition. Catherine believes people move toward wellness when they are treated with dignity and respect.
She meets people where they are and concentrates on practical steps that match a person's goals. Sessions focus on clear, doable changes rather than jargon or long abstractions.
How Catherine works
Her background includes work in hospital settings, community mental health, and substance use treatment. That variety shaped a straightforward style that balances problem-solving with listening. She values the strengths and coping skills people already bring into the room.
Catherine uses client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral tools, motivational interviewing, mindfulness, and narrative work. Those approaches support work on mood, anxiety, addictions, grief, and life transitions. She helps people identify patterns, build coping strategies, and test small changes between sessions.
Typical concerns she addresses include stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting stresses, ADHD, substance use, eating and sleeping difficulties, grief, and workplace strain. Catherine also focuses on co-morbidity, codependency, communication problems, and mood disorders. Practical goals often include improving daily functioning, managing strong emotions, and strengthening communication.
People can expect a collaborative process with clear explanations and steps to try outside of sessions.
Catherine lists 6 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
How Catherine’s approaches work online
Client-centered therapy puts the person's priorities first and focuses on active listening and respect. Online sessions let Catherine follow your lead, clarify goals, and adapt pace and focus to what matters most to you.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. In remote sessions CBT can include short exercises, thought records, and practical homework that you can try between meetings to reduce anxiety, manage mood, or change habits.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve moment-to-moment awareness. These techniques translate well to video or phone work and can be practiced in short bursts during busy days.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Catherine will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences and will adjust strategies as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and live chat or text messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing reflection between appointments. These formats make it easier to keep momentum while managing work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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