Catherine Kolleth, LPCC, LMFT
Practical, respectful therapy for relationship and addiction concerns
About Catherine
Catherine Kolleth is a licensed professional clinical counselor and a licensed marriage and family therapist in Ohio. She brings 12 years of clinical experience and a practical, warm style to sessions.
Background and approach
Catherine focuses on helping people manage relationship struggles, addictions, depression, anxiety, parenting concerns, and trauma-related problems. She began her work in a residential treatment setting for adolescents and later practiced in community mental health, substance abuse residential treatment, and independent practice.
That range of settings gave her experience with many life challenges, including grief, career stress, and issues tied to sexual identity and intimacy. She also works with people who want help around kink, BDSM, and alternative sex culture topics.
Her approach centers on listening and responding to each person's needs. She blends client-centered work with cognitive-behavioral and dialectical skills, and draws on the Gottman Method and mindfulness approaches when they fit the goals.
Sessions tend to be interactive, with concrete tools and experiments you can try between meetings. Catherine helps people set clear, realistic goals and then breaks steps down into manageable tasks.
She uses motivational interviewing to explore ambivalence and build commitment to change. Problem solving and skills practice are common parts of the work.
The tone of her work is respectful and nonjudgmental. She emphasizes collaboration so clients stay in charge of decisions.
Catherine aims to help people reduce distress, improve communication, and build more satisfying daily routines.
Therapeutic approaches that work well online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people name their own goals. It is useful when someone wants a supportive space to make sense of feelings and decide next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and addiction by breaking problems into manageable steps. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills; it can be helpful for strong mood swings, intense emotions, and relationship stress.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to identify goals and then chooses techniques that fit those goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps shape whether sessions focus more on skills practice, relationship work, or deeper processing of past experiences.
Online therapy offers flexibility with several ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, keep momentum between visits, and pick the format that feels most practical for each person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English