About Catherine
Catherine Ladd offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, grief, anxiety, and life transitions. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW practicing in North Carolina and brings ten years of experience to conversations about coping and change. Catherine writes in plain language and focuses on clear next steps during sessions.
She has a background that includes hospice work and independent practice, which shaped how she talks about loss and anticipatory grief.
Background and approach
That experience also informs help for caregivers and people facing serious illness. Sessions tend to be warm and unhurried so clients can speak openly about what matters most to them. Catherine often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits.
She also draws on motivational interviewing to boost readiness for change and solution-focused methods to set practical goals. She mixes these approaches based on what a person wants to accomplish. Typical concerns she addresses include relationship issues, low self-esteem, career stress, compassion fatigue, and coping with life changes.
Additional areas of focus listed in her practice include attachment issues, caregiver stress, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and bereavement following illness. Her style is straightforward and compassionate. People who prefer clear tools, step-by-step planning, and honest feedback often find this approach useful.
Catherine helps people map next steps and practice skills between sessions to make steady progress.
How Catherine Uses Practical Approaches Online
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing small behavior changes. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and stress by giving concrete tools to try between sessions. Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and boosts motivation when someone feels stuck. It works well for career shifts, habit change, and decisions about next steps.Deciding which approach to use is a team effort. Catherine will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest one or a mix of methods. Together they set short-term goals and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the work practical and goal focused.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people read visual cues, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text messaging are handy for quick check-ins or when scheduling is tight. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still using the same therapeutic methods and tools.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Family problems
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English