About Catherine
Catherine Pettus uses a blend of practical therapy approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, anger, and low self-esteem. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, working from Arkansas with 15 years of experience. Catherine writes plainly and listens closely so people can feel heard and make steady change.
Her work is collaborative and focused on everyday problems. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns.
How Catherine works
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and DBT skills to teach emotion regulation and coping tools. Mindfulness practices and client-centered dialog are part of how she helps people notice what matters to them. Catherine has worked with a wide range of life challenges such as caregiver strain, aging and geriatric issues, and the aftermath of divorce and separation.
She also addresses family of origin issues, abandonment concerns, and patterns like codependency or dependent personality. Her practice covers forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation and finding life purpose. Sessions are intended to be respectful and nonjudgmental.
She avoids stigmatizing labels and aims to tailor conversations and plans to each person’s needs. Catherine emphasizes steady, realistic steps and practical strategies that people can use between sessions. People come for short-term problem solving and for longer work on deeper patterns.
Catherine combines solution-focused tools with skill-building so clients can handle current stressors and plan for change over time.
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
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arkansas |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Catherine often draws on attachment-based therapy to help people notice how early relationship patterns influence current reactions and expectations. This approach looks at connection and trust issues and can help with loneliness, abandonment concerns, and recurring relationship patterns.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors. CBT is practical and helps with anxiety, low mood, and problem-focused goals by offering clear exercises and thought tracking. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills are used when emotion regulation or intense reactions are present; those skills teach breathing, distress tolerance, and communication techniques that can be practiced between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods match their goals and preferences. That process may include trying different techniques and adjusting plans as needs change.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video lets people work face to face; phone works when bandwidth is limited or a camera is unwanted. Live chat or text messaging can serve as brief check-ins or to track progress between longer appointments. These options make it easier to get consistent support without major travel or scheduling strain.
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