Catalina Kay
Practical CBT for everyday family challenges
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed in
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Catalina
Catalina Kay uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people make practical changes in their lives. She is a licensed professional clinical counselor, LPCC, practicing in Minnesota with 29 years of experience. Catalina writes plain, direct plans with clients and focuses on small, doable steps rather than long lectures.
She helps people facing addictions, depression, and low self-esteem. She also addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, sleep and eating problems, and anger.
Background and approach
Hospice and end-of-life counseling are among her additional areas of focus. In a session she listens to the current problem and the goals a person has. Then she offers straightforward tools drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, such as spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors.
Sessions are concrete and action-oriented so progress can be noticed between meetings. Catalina emphasizes that clients know their own story. She treats their experience as the starting point and builds on existing strengths.
That keeps work realistic and respectful of each persons pace. Her background includes nearly three decades of clinical practice in Minnesota. People who reach out can expect a focused, calm approach that balances practical skills with support through life transitions.
Catalina aims to make therapy useful and approachable for those who need it.
CBT and Practical Online Support
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. It is often useful for depression, anxiety, sleep and eating problems, and low self-esteem because it breaks problems into clear steps.Catalina focuses on straightforward CBT techniques that teach skills you can use between sessions. She pairs problem-focused work with conversations about goals and daily routines. This makes it easier to measure progress and adjust the plan together.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each client about their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they decide which techniques to try and change the plan if something is not helping.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats let people fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life changes, and choose the way of communicating that feels most comfortable. Licensed professionals can deliver the same CBT strategies online as in-person, while adapting tools and homework to the chosen format.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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