About Catherine
Catherine Colardo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who has practiced in mental health since 2007. She brings 13 years of experience to helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and big life changes. Catherine aims to stand alongside clients as a steady, practical support during hard times.
She listens first and focuses on what matters to the person in front of her. Sessions are grounded in empathy and a person-centered style.
Background and approach
Catherine helps people name current struggles and set small, reachable goals to move forward. Her background includes work with trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, mood disorders, parenting challenges, and relationship strain. She has also supported people through adoption and foster care matters, caregiver stress, blended family issues, and loss.
Catherine works with a wide range of life concerns from isolation and anger to coping after disaster. In session she uses tools from acceptance and commitment work, cognitive behavioral methods, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. Those approaches are used in everyday language and applied to real situations like managing worry, mood shifts, or patterns that cause conflict.
People who connect well with Catherine tend to want practical steps and a supportive, steady presence. She is based in North Carolina and conducts sessions in English. To begin, readers can follow the simple site steps to be matched and schedule a session.
How these approaches work online
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and changing them into more useful patterns. Online sessions can use short exercises and homework to practice new skills between meetings, which helps with anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches people to accept difficult feelings while committing to actions that match their values. Online work with ACT often uses simple mindfulness exercises and values-based goal setting to manage painful emotions and move toward meaningful change.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and daily life. That choice can shift over time as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for quick check-ins, and text messaging lets people share short updates or get support between sessions. These options help therapy fit into busy schedules and different routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English