About Cathryn
Cathryn Charette is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in California who focuses on helping people build more stable, fulfilling lives. She draws on five years of clinical experience and centers care on each person's strengths and values.
Background and approach
Her work emphasizes practical change along with emotional growth. Cathryn takes a humanistic approach that supports self-understanding and clearer decision making.
She helps people notice patterns that cause pain and try new ways of responding. Mindfulness and self-compassion are regular parts of sessions.
She uses straightforward tools to address anxiety, stress, depression, and grief. She also helps people facing trauma, addictions, intimacy questions, body image concerns, and parenting stress.
Her scope includes a range of related struggles such as attachment wounds, codependency, chronic illness stress, and problems with communication or commitment. In sessions she blends talking, skill building, and reflection.
Cognitive and behavioral techniques are used alongside approaches that focus on attachment and acceptance. The aim is to strengthen coping skills while building a clearer sense of self.
Cathryn describes her stance as patient, nonjudgmental, and inclusive. She supports people from many backgrounds and life stages.
Sessions are conducted in English and offered through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build safer, more trusting connections in relationships. Client-Centered Therapy creates a supportive space where the therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what they hear, and helps people explore their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cathryn will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and what feels helpful. Together they choose techniques and exercises that fit the person's life and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people use body language and verbal cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow ongoing support and brief check-ins between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English