About Cathrine
Cathrine Kearns greets people with a calm, straightforward style. She is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience based in Florida. Many come to her feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, grief, or relationship strain.
She aims to make the first steps into counseling feel manageable and clear. Cathrine uses practical talk and goal-focused sessions. She helps people sort priorities, spot unhelpful thought patterns, and try small changes that add up.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative - she works together with each person to set goals and track progress. Her background blends social work and counseling, and she has spent years supporting people after trauma and loss. She also has experience with caregiving stress, chronic illness, and identity concerns in LGBTQ communities.
That variety helps her tailor approaches to everyday life problems. In therapy she draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral work, mindfulness, and solution-focused strategies. These methods are used to address mood, sleep, eating concerns, and relationship difficulties.
Trauma-focused strategies are available when past harm affects current functioning. Cathrine emphasizes practical coping skills that fit a busy life. She supports people facing career shifts, parenting strain, and major life transitions.
The goal is clearer thinking and steadier day-to-day functioning, not quick fixes.
Approaches that fit your life and schedule
She often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with practical actions that change mood and behavior. CBT is commonly applied to anxiety, depression, sleep, and eating concerns.Mindfulness Therapy is used to build present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. Simple breathing and attention practices are taught to help manage stress and improve focus in daily life.
Motivational Interviewing is a conversational style she uses to support people who want to make a change but feel unsure where to start. It helps clarify values and strengthen motivation for steps like behavior changes or treatment decisions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their goals, pace, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation; phone can work when bandwidth is limited or you need a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging can fit into busy days for shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent amid work, caregiving, and other demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English