Catherine Sechrist, LPC, LPMHC

Catherine Sechrist is a licensed counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. She uses straightforward talk and practical tools to help people manage symptoms and make steady progress. She brings nine years of clinical experience to sessions and matches methods to each person’s needs. Catherine favors approaches that focus on thoughts, values, and present-day skills, and she works from a strengths-based perspective. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with attention to what feels doable for the client. Parents and caregivers reading this should know the therapist helps with parenting stress and sleep or eating concerns tied to emotional strain. She also supports people coping with career pressure, compassion fatigue, and trauma after disasters or other distressing events. Catherine lists Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy among the approaches she uses. In practice this looks like identifying unhelpful thought patterns, clarifying values, building coping skills, and setting small, measurable goals. She has worked with issues such as body image, obsessions and compulsions, panic and phobias, workplace problems, and end-of-life or hospice-related concerns. Sessions aim to be a collaborative process where the client’s priorities guide the work and progress is tracked in clear steps.

Approaches that translate well to online therapy

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It suits worries like panic attacks, social anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and workplace stress by teaching concrete skills and practice exercises.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take committed steps toward those values while learning to sit with difficult feelings. It can be helpful for persistent anxiety, grief, and coping with life transitions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Catherine will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals and daily life. That may mean combining CBT skill practice with ACT values work or using client-centered conversation to shape sessions. Treatment plans are adjusted as needs and preferences become clearer.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different days and needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can be easier when video is not possible, chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while keeping consistent progress.