About Catherine
Catherine Edwards is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Catherine works with individuals and couples to strengthen communication and rebuild emotional connection. Her approach blends skill-building and emotion-focused conversation.
She uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and small, doable actions. Catherine also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy principles when working on attachment and intimacy in relationships.
Over four years of clinical experience in Pennsylvania have shaped her practical, down-to-earth style. Sessions tend to focus on clear goals, steady progress, and real-life application rather than long theory-heavy talks.
She pays attention to family history and common patterns that repeat over time. Catherine often helps people unpack issues like abandonment, codependency, caregiver stress, and problems that come from blended family dynamics.
She also supports those dealing with guilt, shame, impulsivity, and control struggles. Conversations cover what is happening now and how past relationships influence current choices.
In sessions, Catherine works collaboratively to build new ways of handling conflict and to strengthen emotional safety between partners. She encourages short experiments, communication practice, and mindful notice of thoughts and urges.
Her goal is to leave people with clearer direction and skills they can use after therapy ends.
Practical talk therapy online using evidence-informed methods
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small committed steps toward those values. It helps when worries or avoidance keep someone from living the life they want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going, teaching skills to change thinking patterns and try new actions that lead to different results. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at patterns of interaction and emotion in relationships, helping partners notice and change the cycles that create distance.Catherine treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person or couple about goals, try techniques that match those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative process makes it easier to select the mix of ACT, CBT, or EFT that fits a client’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and observing interactions. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Messaging and live chat let people share thoughts between sessions and keep progress moving during busy weeks. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a workday, parenting schedule, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English