About Catherine
Catherine Kolleth is a licensed professional clinical counselor and a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Ohio. She has 12 years of experience helping people face addiction, depression, anxiety, relationship strain, and other life stresses. Catherine listens with warmth and directness to understand what each person wants to change.
Her path includes work in adolescent residential treatment, community mental health, substance abuse residential programs, and independent practice. Those settings gave her experience with a broad range of concerns, including trauma, grief, parenting challenges, and LGBTQ issues.
How Catherine works
She brings that variety into conversations about real-life goals. Catherine uses approaches that center the person while teaching practical skills. She blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior strategies, and incorporates systems-informed thinking and solution-focused ideas.
Sessions involve setting clear goals, trying new ways of responding, and learning skills to manage stress and mood. She pays attention to relationships and communication, including intimacy, infidelity, blended family questions, and fatherhood concerns. Catherine also supports people dealing with substance use, body image, jealousy, and complicated family-of-origin patterns.
Her style aims to reduce shame and increase personal agency. Working with her is collaborative. She helps people name the changes they want, build a plan, and problem-solve obstacles.
Catherine encourages steady progress and practical steps toward a more balanced life.
Catherine lists 7 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.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPCC, LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on the individual's perspective and emphasizes listening, empathy, and respect. It helps people feel heard while they decide what changes matter most and what steps to try first.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, works on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It offers practical exercises to reduce anxiety, depression, or problematic habits by changing unhelpful thinking and trying new actions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness. It can be useful for people who want concrete tools to handle strong feelings and improve relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods based on goals, needs, and preferences. That process can involve testing different skills and adjusting plans as progress occurs.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for full conversations and skill practice. Phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow short check-ins and written tracking of progress. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep steady contact between sessions.
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