Cathrine Kearns
Calm, practical therapy for family concerns
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Cathrine
Cathrine Kearns is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship and family challenges, and other life disruptions. She brings two decades of hands-on experience and a calm, open approach that aims to make conversations easier to start. Cathrine works with adults on concerns including mood changes, trauma and abuse, LGBTQ matters, and parenting stress.
She practices in Florida and offers services in English, and she accepts international clients as well.
Background and approach
Her sessions are collaborative. She and the client set goals together and decide practical steps to try between meetings. Cathrine uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and from mindfulness to build present-moment skills.
She also draws on motivational interviewing to support change and solution-focused methods to pinpoint small, useful shifts. Cathrine has a Master’s degree in Social Work and holds the LCSW credential. Her background includes two decades helping people cope with loss, chronic illness, caregiving strain, and career transitions.
She often helps clients work through intimacy and communication problems, body image or eating concerns, and issues tied to adoption, attachment, or abandonment. Her style is nonjudgmental and practical. Cathrine aims to create a low-pressure atmosphere where people can speak honestly.
She supports people as they test new ways of coping and make steady progress toward their goals. To begin, clients choose a subscription plan, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
How Cathrine blends approaches for online therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing small behavior changes. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating disruptions, and many day-to-day stressors.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce rumination and increase calm. It can help with stress, grief, and managing difficult emotions in the moment.
Cathrine views choosing an approach as a shared decision. She will talk with each person about goals, try a few techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. The process is collaborative and paced to the individual needs and preferences.
Online therapy with Cathrine can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. That mix makes it easier to fit sessions around work, school, and caregiving. These formats also let people revisit session notes, practice skills between meetings, and stay connected without travel.
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.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
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