Catherine Colardo, LCSW

Catherine Colardo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 13 years of experience. She practices from North Carolina and offers a warm, down-to-earth style that helps people navigate hard moments. Catherine aims to be a steady presence while clients sort through stress, grief, or big life changes.

She uses practical, evidence-informed tools drawn in part from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside acceptance-based and client-centered methods. Sessions focus on identifying current challenges and setting clear, manageable goals. Catherine emphasizes simple strategies people can try between meetings to build momentum.

Catherine has worked across community and clinical settings since 2007. That background exposed her to a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, relationship pain, addiction, and grief. She also helps with issues like caregiver stress, adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, and feelings of isolation.

Her approach is empathetic and collaborative. She listens first, then helps clients name steps they can take. Practical tools, mindfulness exercises, and motivational conversations are used as needed to support coping and decision-making.

People who connect with Catherine often want straightforward guidance and a calm partner while they work through change. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.

How Catherine blends approaches in online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that fit those values, which can help with stress, life transitions, and low mood.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking patterns and to build new behaviors, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with change.

Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person’s experience. The therapist listens deeply, reflects what she hears, and supports clients in finding their own answers rather than directing choices.

Figuring out which approach fits best is part of the work. Catherine will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. That can mean mixing techniques from ACT, CBT, and client-centered work as progress unfolds.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video is helpful for deeper conversations, phone calls can be a quicker check-in or work better with limited bandwidth, and chat or messages suit brief reflections or day-to-day support. These options let people choose what works best for their schedule and circumstances.