Catherine Wasson
Support for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LICSW, LCSW, CSW
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Colorado, Virginia, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Catherine
Catherine Wasson is a licensed social worker who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside a range of emotional and life challenges. She presents a calm, respectful presence and aims to make conversations straightforward and practical. Catherine speaks English and practices in Virginia, drawing on seven years of experience in social work across different settings.
She uses a mix of approaches to fit each person’s needs rather than one fixed method.
Background and approach
Sessions are interactive and collaborative, with attention to day-to-day coping, communication, and decision points. Catherine avoids stigmatizing labels and centers respect and sensitivity in how she listens and responds. Her work includes support for anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and stress.
She also addresses relationship and intimacy-related concerns, self-esteem, career questions, and issues such as compassion fatigue and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include communication problems, family problems, first responder issues, guilt and shame, panic, and post-traumatic stress. Catherine integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered techniques, mindfulness, EMDR, and solution-focused strategies depending on what helps most.
That mix allows practical skills work, emotional processing, and short-term goal setting when appropriate. She will tailor how she talks and plans work to each person’s situation. For practical details, sessions can be video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Costs vary with location and therapist availability and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a prospective client selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to availability.
How Catherine’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person’s pace, helping people name what matters and make choices that fit their lives. It’s useful when someone wants a respectful, nonjudgmental space to talk through parenting or family concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety or manage mood. It often includes simple exercises between sessions to practice new habits and respond differently to stress.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a structured method for processing painful memories and trauma. When appropriate, it can help reduce the intensity of traumatic reactions and support better day-to-day functioning.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Catherine will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences, and comfort level. She adapts plans over time so the therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to continue work from home or on the go. The variety of formats also lets people pick the way they feel most comfortable communicating while doing real skills practice and emotional work.
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.
EMDR
A structured protocol used with distressing memories, pairing recall with guided attention tasks. Some therapists adapt it for video sessions; whether that fits is worth asking about directly.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Virginia, New Jersey, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Catherine
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point