Cathy Heaps-Stetson
Nurturing, practical mental health support
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Cathy
Cathy Heaps-Stetson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with nearly 30 years of clinical experience. She uses a person-centered style that focuses on listening, empathy, and guiding people to find their own answers. Her approach is warm and nonjudgmental while remaining practical and goal-oriented.
She often combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral strategies. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small changes to see what helps.
Background and approach
She also uses mindfulness and relaxation practices to reduce stress and improve sleep and coping. Cathy has supported people facing grief, chronic illness, major life changes, and trauma. She also works with concerns such as anxiety, depression, anger, self-esteem, parenting, intimacy, and career stress.
Her background includes training in grief recovery and long experience educating and counseling across many situations. In sessions she offers reflective listening and gentle challenge. She asks questions that help uncover barriers and patterns.
Then she and the client work together to set practical steps that fit daily life and family demands. Cathy practices in Florida and brings decades of experience to each meeting. She aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for people juggling busy lives and hard emotions.
Her style supports steady progress through clear tools and compassionate guidance.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice and test thoughts that lead to stress or low mood. In practice this often means tracking situations, the thoughts that arise, and trying small behavior changes to see what helps.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and creating a trusting space. The therapist follows the client’s lead, offers reflective listening, and supports people as they uncover their own solutions to problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will help determine whether CBT, a client-centered style, mindfulness techniques, or a mix fits best based on the person’s goals and preferences. Decisions are collaborative and adjusted as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy routines, manage family responsibilities, and maintain continuity through life changes. They also allow for regular check-ins and flexible ways to practice new skills between sessions.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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 of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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