About Catherine
Catherine Costa is a licensed clinical social worker with a Rhode Island LICSW and three years of professional experience. She focuses on practical support for everyday struggles and helps people set clear goals. Her style is warm and respectful, and she aims to make the first step feel manageable for whoever reaches out.
Catherine helps with stress, anxiety, and depression, and also supports people working through parenting concerns and career challenges.
How Catherine works
She offers guidance for issues like self-esteem, motivation, grief, anger, and coping with life changes. She also works with concerns related to trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and LGBT matters. In sessions she uses straightforward approaches drawn from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, motivational interviewing, narrative therapy, and solution-focused methods.
Catherine tailors conversations and plans to each person's situation. She focuses on small, achievable steps so progress can be noticed between meetings. Her practice also addresses practical pressures such as money and workplace issues, caregiver stress, adoption and foster care questions, life purpose, and compassion fatigue.
Catherine mixes coaching-style questions with therapeutic tools to keep sessions goal-oriented and useful. She works in English and offers several online formats to fit different schedules. People who want a calm, practical, and goal-focused therapist will find her approach direct and encouraging.
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
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Rhode Island |
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Online support options
How Catherine’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflects feelings, and helps people find their own solutions; this is useful for building confidence and handling stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises and simple strategies to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Catherine will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. From that conversation she and the client choose techniques to try and adjust them as needed in future sessions. This keeps the process collaborative and flexible.
Online therapy lets people connect in ways that fit their life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when seeing visual cues matters. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during a short break. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, writing through thoughts, or keeping momentum between longer meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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