About Catherine
Catherine Wasson is a licensed clinician based in Virginia who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She greets clients with a respectful, down-to-earth style and focuses on practical steps that people can use between sessions. Catherine holds LICSW and LCSW credentials and brings seven years of clinical experience to her work.
She uses straightforward conversation to learn what matters most to each person. Sessions are collaborative - the client’s goals shape the plan.
Background and approach
Catherine often combines problem-solving strategies with mindfulness and awareness exercises to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Catherine has supported people through trauma and abuse, post-traumatic stress, panic attacks, and compassion fatigue. She also helps with parenting challenges, career strain, identity and LGBT concerns, and the emotional fallout from life transitions.
She will talk through coping skills, communication tools, and ways to rebuild self-esteem. Her approach draws on client-centered work, cognitive-behavioral techniques, solution-focused steps, mindfulness practices, and EMDR when appropriate. She explains options in plain language and tailors sessions to fit each person’s pace and needs.
People who choose Catherine can expect a warm, nonjudgmental space to sort through hard emotions. She aims to make progress feel practical and reachable, not abstract. The focus is on clear next steps clients can try between meetings.
How Catherine’s Approaches Work Online
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small experiments. It helps with anxiety, panic attacks, low mood, and problem-solving in daily life. EMDR involves guided attention and processing of traumatic memories to reduce their emotional impact and is used for post-traumatic stress and trauma-related symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Catherine will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. Sessions are collaborative - she adjusts techniques based on what is helpful and what feels manageable for the client.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat suits short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Virginia, New Jersey, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English