About Catherine
Catherine Diosdado is a licensed clinical social worker who blends practical, person-focused methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and depression. She works from a respectful stance that recognizes each person as the expert on their life. Catherine values small, steady steps and aims to make beginning therapy feel manageable for someone who may be worried or unsure.
She brings 14 years of clinical work as a licensed social worker in New Mexico, and a longer background in social work across different settings.
Background and approach
That experience has shaped a straightforward style. Sessions focus on clear goals, problem-solving, and building skills you can use between appointments. Catherine draws on approaches such as attachment-based work to look at how relationships shape feelings, client-centered methods to follow each person’s pace, and cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors.
Mindfulness is used to strengthen present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. Motivational interviewing helps when people feel stuck or unsure about change. Typical concerns she addresses include family and relationship struggles, adoption and foster care issues, blended family dynamics, codependency, divorce or separation, and first responder stress.
She also supports people dealing with dissociation, disruptive mood patterns, guilt, and shame. Her sessions use straightforward language and practical exercises. Catherine encourages clients to set realistic goals and to notice small changes.
She invites anyone in New Mexico who reads this to consider whether a collaborative, goal-focused approach could help them move forward.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-based work focuses on how current relationships affect emotions and behavior. Online sessions can use this approach to identify patterns and practice new ways of connecting with people who matter. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and following each person's pace, helping someone feel heard and supported while deciding next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps spot unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or low mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has worked before. Together they try methods, adjust as needed, and pick tools that fit the person’s life and schedule.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when internet bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide quick ways to share thoughts, practice skills, or check in between longer sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy routine.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English