About Cathrine
Cathrine Musiyiwa offers straightforward support for people dealing with family tensions, parenting strain, trauma and low self-esteem. She is an AASW social worker with five years of professional experience and she speaks English and Shona. Cathrine aims to make the first step feel manageable and non-threatening for someone feeling overwhelmed.
Her approach is practical and person-focused. Sessions are shaped around what matters most to the individual, with a mix of talking, skill practice and simple strategies to manage mood and motivation.
How Cathrine works
She uses ideas from cognitive behavioural work and acceptance-based methods to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. Attachment-based ideas inform how she looks at relationships and parent-child patterns. This can help when abandonment, attachment or blended family issues are part of the problem.
Dialectical behaviour tools are used when intense emotions or relationship difficulties make daily life hard. Cathrine adapts what she offers to each person’s context. She can help with practical parenting concerns, the fallout from separation or divorce, and common struggles like depression or substance issues.
Conversations are held with sensitivity and an aim to build coping skills and clearer communication. Sessions are available via several online formats to suit different needs. People who contact her start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a time that fits.
Cathrine lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
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.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | AASW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English, Shona |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on actions that match their values. It is useful for low mood, motivation problems and for clarifying what matters most when life feels stuck.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach can help with abandonment worries, difficulty trusting others and repeating unhelpful family dynamics.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk about goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and then choose or blend approaches based on those conversations. This is a collaborative process rather than a fixed prescription.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues are helpful. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or messaging can suit people who prefer short check-ins, written reflection or flexible, on-the-go contact.
Overall, online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and to keep working on skills between meetings with appropriately qualified therapists.
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