About Catherine
Catherine Heil is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship challenges. She supports those coping with addiction, grief, self-esteem struggles, anger, and changes in life circumstances. Catherine also works with people facing intimacy-related issues, ADHD, and a range of sexual and behavioral concerns.
She keeps sessions straightforward and practical. Catherine uses clear tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and habits. Her style is warm and goal-focused while centering each person’s priorities.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to produce simple, usable steps between sessions. Catherine trained in social work, earning a Master of Social Work from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and later obtained her clinical license in 2011. She has about 12 years of clinical experience in therapeutic settings, with additional years in social work within mental health.
That background includes both inpatient and outpatient care. Her methods draw on approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. These methods are used to spot thinking patterns, set achievable goals, and build everyday coping skills.
Sessions often focus on small experiments and practical strategies. People who choose Catherine can expect a conversational approach that looks for concrete change. She emphasizes collaboration and measurable steps.
Her work is aimed at helping people regain balance and make steady progress toward their goals.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on values-driven action. It can be useful for anxiety, avoidance, and getting back to meaningful activities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at patterns in thinking and behavior that feed distress and teaches concrete skills to change those patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Motivational Interviewing is a conversational method that helps people clarify their own reasons for change and build motivation for steps like reducing addictive behaviors or improving health routines.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best based on goals, needs, and preferences. That match can shift over time as new challenges arise or progress is made.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video is good for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can serve for shorter check-ins or when writing feels helpful. These options offer flexibility so people can continue therapy from different locations and schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English