Catherine Schurman
Calm, practical support for life's hard moments
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Catherine
Catherine Schurman is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, evidence-based help for people feeling overwhelmed. She draws on eight years of experience to guide conversations about stress, anxiety, mood disorders, and life changes. She aims to meet each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Her style is straightforward and focused on small, doable steps toward feeling better. Catherine works with concerns such as bipolar disorder, depression, relationship struggles, and addiction issues.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related problems, eating and sleeping challenges, anger, low self-esteem, career decisions, and ADHD. Sessions are shaped to match each person’s needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. In appointments she listens before suggesting tools or goals.
Conversations and treatment plans are adapted as things change. She encourages clients to try strategies between sessions and to report back on what helps. Catherine is licensed in Louisiana as an LCSW, LA LCSW 15038, and offers services in English.
She accepts international clients and uses online formats for sessions. Her approach is practical and collaborative, aiming to make therapy fit into a busy life. Starting therapy can feel hard, and Catherine acknowledges that first step.
She works to make the process clear and manageable so people can focus on meaningful change.
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
Many of Catherine's methods focus on tried-and-true, evidence-based techniques that teach skills people can use right away. One common approach helps people recognize and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression and improve daily functioning. Another practical strategy emphasizes building coping skills and routines to manage mood swings, sleep problems, cravings, or stress more effectively.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Catherine listens to each person’s goals, preferences, and life demands, then suggests approaches to try. She adjusts the plan as progress is made so the work stays useful and realistic for the person in front of her.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats let people fit sessions into busy schedules, continue care while traveling, or pick the communication style that feels safest. Together these options make it easier to get consistent support and to practice new skills between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Catherine
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point