About Catherine
Catherine Seger brings 18 years of clinical experience to her Illinois practice. She is an LCPC and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, and low self-esteem. Catherine aims to make starting therapy feel doable and practical for worried parents and busy adults.
She uses approaches that help people spot patterns that get in the way and practice new responses. Sessions emphasize everyday skills for coping with anger, grief, and major life changes.
How Catherine works
Catherine also supports people facing career strain, social anxiety, chronic pain or illness, and concerns around eating or bipolar mood patterns. Catherine believes clients know their own stories and have strengths to build on. She listens without rushing and helps people turn insights into small, achievable steps.
Conversations focus on goals that matter to each person rather than fitting them into a checklist. In sessions she blends structured techniques with a client-centered style. That means she offers tools like thought work and behavior experiments, while adapting to how each person prefers to work.
Parents and caregivers can expect guidance that addresses caregiver stress and the real demands of daily life. Practical matters such as divorce, separation, guilt, and shame are addressed with clear strategies and steady support. Catherine makes room for grief and trauma work while helping clients keep moving toward manageable change.
Her goal is steady progress, one step at a time.
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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
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and identify values to guide actions. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. Client-Centered Therapy centers on empathetic listening and working at the client's pace, which helps people feel heard while making changes.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that fit a person's goals, needs, and comfort level. Sessions are tailored over time, with adjustments based on what proves helpful in practice.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for sessions that benefit from face-to-face interaction, while phone calls use less bandwidth and can fit a short break at work. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or for people who prefer typing. These options make therapy more accessible for those balancing family, work, or medical needs.
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