About Cathrine
Cathrine Kearns meets people who are worn out by stress, anxiety, grief, or life changes. She is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience and offers straightforward support for everyday struggles. Cathrine writes in plain language and helps people untangle what feels overwhelming so they can move forward.
Cathrine uses practical tools to address depression, trauma and abuse, bipolar concerns, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. She also helps people dealing with eating and sleeping problems, caregiving strain, body image, and the long recovery from loss.
How Cathrine works
Her work includes support around LGBT concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and managing chronic illness or pain. Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused. She draws on approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness to help people notice patterns and try small changes.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are used to set clear next steps and keep momentum. Clients can expect a calm, nonjudgmental space where practical skills are a priority. Cathrine emphasizes clear communication and real-life strategies more than clinical jargon.
She also addresses professional burnout and compassion fatigue for people in helping roles. Cathrine holds a Masters degree in Counseling and Psychology and a Masters degree in Social Work. She practices in Florida and works with English-speaking clients, including people connecting from other countries.
Her style is steady, accepting, and focused on what will help each person take the next step.
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What Cathrine works with
The areas below are the ones Cathrine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. It focuses on practical exercises and clear homework tasks that adapt well to remote sessions.Mindfulness Therapy trains simple attention and breathing skills to lower stress and improve sleep or emotional regulation. These short practices can be guided over video or audio and used between sessions for steady progress.
Finding the right method is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals and preferences, then try approaches that fit the problem and the person. Adjustments are made as progress is evaluated so the plan stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat and messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and make it easier to stick with regular sessions.
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