Cathy Heaps-Stetson, LMHC

Cathy Heaps-Stetson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with a long history of helping people work through major life changes. She uses clear, practical methods to help clients manage stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and depression. Her approach is calm, respectful, and focused on the individual.

With 30 years of experience, Cathy draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts. She also uses client-centered techniques to listen carefully and reflect what matters most to each person. Mindfulness and relaxation practices are taught to reduce immediate distress and improve daily coping.

Cathy has worked with people facing serious medical issues and with those processing loss and life transitions. She helps people sort through relationship and family concerns, intimacy questions, parenting strains, and career stress. Other areas she addresses include eating and sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges.

Her style is supportive and non-directive. She asks thoughtful questions and offers reflective listening so people can find their own answers. The work is collaborative and paced to the client’s needs.

Cathy practices in Florida as an LMHC and brings decades of hands-on experience to each session. She helps clients identify the habits and thought patterns that hold them back and works with them to build practical steps forward.

How Cathy’s Approaches Work Online

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Online CBT sessions often include practical exercises, activity plans, and skill practice to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.

Client-centered therapy centers on listening and reflecting so the person feels heard and understood. In remote sessions this looks like paced conversation, reflective questions, and space to make decisions about next steps at the person’s own speed.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Cathy will collaborate with clients to choose what fits their goals and preferences, adjusting methods as progress is made. The work is a shared effort to identify obstacles and build useful habits.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in, and chat or messaging can be helpful for brief updates, between-session reflection, or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into a busy life and to keep up steady progress.