About Catherine
Catherine Sechrist is a licensed counselor who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. She takes a practical, down-to-earth approach aimed at steady improvement. Catherine uses clear goals and simple tools so people can see progress between sessions.
She draws on about nine years of clinical experience and adapts methods to each person’s needs. Catherine works from a strengths-based stance, focusing on what a person already does well and building from there.
How Catherine works
Sessions are collaborative - she listens first, then suggests techniques that fit the client’s life. Catherine uses a mix of approaches such as cognitive behavioral methods to challenge unhelpful thoughts and acceptance-based ideas to reduce struggling with painful feelings. She also includes client-centered listening and solution-focused work to set achievable next steps.
Skills from dialectical behavior therapy are added when people need better emotion regulation and stress tolerance. Her areas of concern include eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting stress, career challenges, compassion fatigue, trauma and abuse, and a range of anxiety issues like panic, phobias, and social anxiety. Additional focuses include body image, grief, hospice and end-of-life counseling, money worries, and first responder issues.
Sessions are offered in English and take place online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Catherine holds Pennsylvania licensure as an LPC and Delaware licensure as an LPMHC and practices with attention to each person’s goals and pace.
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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.
Also listed
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LPMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It teaches practical techniques for anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and phobias that people can practice between sessions.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. This approach is useful for stress, grief, and ongoing emotional pain.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs, adjusting the plan as you go. Together you decide when to keep a strategy or try something different.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you work through skills visually, phone can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging allows ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, family, and busy days while keeping a consistent schedule with licensed professionals.
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