About Cathryn
Cathryn Charette is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California with five years of clinical experience. She draws on humanistic ideas to help people build stronger self-understanding and clearer choices in daily life. Cathryn frames therapy as a practical, steady process rather than a quick fix.
She listens for strengths and helps people notice their values and motivations. Sessions focus on small, concrete steps that fit each person’s life.
How Cathryn works
Cathryn uses mindfulness and self-awareness exercises to help people respond more calmly when stress or old patterns show up. Cathryn helps people repair attachment difficulties and develop more supported ways of relating. That can mean learning new boundaries, improving communication, or building trust after painful experiences.
She encourages what psychologists call earned security - growing a firmer sense of self after trauma or loss. Her approach brings together several established models to match a person’s needs. Therapy blends talking, practical skills, and reflective work so clients can try new ways of coping between sessions.
Cathryn emphasizes patience, self-compassion, and steady progress rather than pressure to change instantly. She works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy struggles, parenting stress, addictions, body image, ADHD, and caregiver strain. Cathryn’s manner is warm, inclusive, and nonjudgmental.
She aims to help people feel more capable, grounded, and able to make choices that reflect their values.
Cathryn 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Cathryn works with
The areas below are the ones Cathryn selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- 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
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and take small actions toward those values. It uses simple exercises to reduce avoidance and increase committed steps, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand attachment styles, improve boundaries, and build more supported ways of relating after hurt or loss.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, works on clear links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches practical tools to challenge unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors, which can ease symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match goals, needs, and preferences. That process is flexible and may combine techniques until a good fit emerges.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a lighter check-in, and chat or messaging can fit short updates or busy days. These options help people keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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