Catherine Valentine, LCPC

Catherine Valentine is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 25 years of experience supporting people through anxiety, stress, grief, depression, and self-esteem struggles. She focuses on practical steps clients can use right away. She emphasizes each person's strengths and respects the client's own knowledge of their life.

Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. Sessions aim to help people manage difficult feelings and find clearer direction. She uses structured techniques alongside listening and reflection to form a plan that fits daily life.

Catherine blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with acceptance-focused work and client-centered listening. That combination helps people change unhelpful thoughts, build new habits, and tolerate strong emotions when needed. She also draws on mindfulness and skills from dialectical approaches when emotional regulation is a priority.

Over her career she has worked with people facing relationship and family stress, parenting strain, trauma and abuse, substance-related issues, and health-related challenges such as chronic pain or caregiving strain. She also supports concerns like sleep problems, anger, bipolar mood management, and attention difficulties.

Catherine practices in Illinois as an IL LCPC. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental space and focuses on small, achievable steps. The first session is used to set goals and decide which methods will help most.

How Catherine’s Approaches Work Online

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It helps with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and problem patterns that get in the way of daily life. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them while clarifying personal values to guide action; it can help with grief, chronic stress, and motivation. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own goals and experience, using listening and reflection to help people feel heard and to build momentum toward change.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Catherine will discuss options, try methods that match the client's goals, and adjust plans based on what helps most. That collaborative process makes it easier to find techniques that fit the person's situation and pace.

Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging can support short updates, skill practice, and follow-up between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain continuity over time.