Catherine Filary
Practical, compassionate help for stress and change
- Credentials
- LMSW
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Catherine
Catherine Filary is a licensed social worker in Michigan with 16 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction-related concerns, depression, and PTSD symptoms. Catherine approaches sessions with compassion and without stigmatizing labels to help people feel heard and respected.
She bases treatment in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and adds mindfulness and nervous-system regulation exercises as needed. Catherine tailors her approach to each person's needs and goals rather than applying a single method to everyone.
Background and approach
She uses practical tools in sessions that clients can use between meetings. Catherine has worked across mental health and addiction settings, including supporting people using Suboxone for opioid addiction. Her background includes time with clients who had limited resources and with military veterans experiencing combat-related stress.
She also affirms LGBT+ people and older adults in her practice. In sessions she aims to build an open space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. She encourages clients to take gradual steps toward their goals and to practice new skills outside of appointments.
Catherine recognizes that starting therapy takes courage and offers steady support through that process.
Approaches that translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed action toward them, which can help with anxiety, life changes, and motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms like panic, depression, and social anxiety through practical skill-building. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and improve emotional regulation.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That decision can shift over time as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Confirm current session options before booking since formats are not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also lets people practice skills in their everyday environment and bring real-life situations into sessions for focused work.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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