Cathrine Kearns, LCSW

Cathrine Kearns is a Florida licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship strains, or issues related to identity and intimacy. Her tone is calm and practical, and she aims to make the first steps toward help feel easier to take.

Cathrine uses straightforward, collaborative work in sessions. She listens first, then helps people set clear, manageable goals. She often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also uses mindfulness and solution-focused ideas to build daily coping skills.

Her background includes graduate training in counseling, psychology, and social work, and two master’s degrees that support a broad clinical perspective. Over two decades she has worked with a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, PTSD, parenting and family stress, LGBT-related issues, and chronic health or caregiving challenges.

Sessions typically focus on practical tools that can be used between meetings. This might include short behavioral experiments, thought-tracking, mindfulness exercises, or small steps toward difficult conversations. Cathrine frames the work as a team effort and adapts strategies to what works for each person.

She is comfortable supporting people through life transitions, career stress, and recurring patterns such as codependency, attachment worries, or anger. The emphasis is on clear planning, steady progress, and reducing the worry that can keep people stuck.

Practical approaches and online care

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, sleeping and eating concerns, and anger by turning big problems into small, testable steps.

Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and increase calm. It can help with rumination, grief, chronic pain, and day-to-day emotional regulation.

Motivational interviewing focuses on exploring what matters to a person and strengthening motivation to make a change. It is useful for goals like improving health behaviors, coping with burnout, or moving through life transitions.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Cathrine treats therapy as a collaborative process and will help decide which methods fit a person's needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts tools over time based on how someone responds.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules, travel, work breaks, or times when a quieter, camera-free check-in is preferred.