Catherine Kluge
Calm, practical guidance for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Catherine
Catherine Kluge is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years of experience. She focuses on practical, respectful care that helps people move toward healthier routines and clearer choices. Catherine uses straightforward conversations to identify strengths and small steps that fit each person's life.
Catherine earned her master's in counseling and has worked in settings including hospital care, community mental health, and substance use treatment. That variety shaped her ability to adapt methods to different needs.
Background and approach
She listens for what already works and builds on those skills. Her approach is client-centered. That means Catherine follows the person's lead while offering tools from cognitive-behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing when helpful.
She also uses narrative therapy to help people reframe difficult stories and see new options. She commonly helps with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, parenting concerns, grief, and mood disorders. Catherine also addresses relationship and communication problems, workplace issues, and life transitions.
Her practice includes attention to ADHD, trauma and abuse, and issues that often occur together such as codependency and substance use. Catherine aims to meet people where they are and work toward realistic goals. Sessions focus on clear, doable strategies to improve day-to-day functioning.
She keeps the process collaborative and grounded in what matters most to the person seeking help.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's priorities. The therapist offers empathy and respects each person's choices while helping clarify goals and next steps. This approach helps when people want a respectful, steady place to talk through problems.Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Sessions often include simple exercises to try between meetings and work well for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck about change; it uses guided conversation to strengthen motivation and make plans that feel possible.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Catherine will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That process may involve trying out techniques and adjusting over time so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Those options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule and to check in between meetings when needed. Many people find the range of formats helps them stay consistent with therapy while using approaches that fit how they prefer to communicate.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
Next step
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