About Cathy
Cathy Christensen-Curry is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. She sees adults facing parenting challenges, addictions, trauma or abuse, and life transitions. Her manner is warm and compassionate, and she focuses on hearing what each person needs in the moment.
Cathy draws on about 20 years of experience in Montana. She pays attention to how relationships shape how people feel about themselves.
Background and approach
Sessions often include talking through patterns that cause pain and trying small changes that lead to more steady days. Her approach mixes attachment-focused ideas and client-centered listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness. That blend helps people understand emotional triggers and practice different responses.
Conversations aim to build confidence and useful habits rather than labels or jargon. Cathy is comfortable addressing parenting strain, family-of-origin issues, blended family concerns, abandonment and attachment wounds, body image, and intimacy-related struggles. She also supports those coping with compassion fatigue, career shifts, eating or sleeping problems, and ADHD-related challenges.
Sessions are intended to feel respectful and collaborative. Cathy seeks to create occasions for relief and clearer thinking. Over time, people often notice steadier emotions, better communication, and more belief in their ability to handle life’s stresses.
How Cathy’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Cathy combines client-centered listening with attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioral techniques. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening without judgment and helping a person find their own answers, which supports changes in confidence and self-understanding. Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape reactions and closeness, and it can help with trust, abandonment concerns, and family-of-origin patterns. Cognitive behavioral techniques break down thoughts and actions into practical steps to reduce anxiety, low mood, or unhelpful habits.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Cathy will collaborate with each person to decide which methods make the most sense for their goals and day-to-day life. That means trying a few ways of working and adjusting as progress is made or needs shift.
Online therapy makes those options flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when more connection helps. Phone sessions can be a better fit when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer ongoing contact for brief reflections or between-session support. These formats make therapy easier to fit around work, parenting, or other obligations while keeping the same therapeutic goals in focus.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English