- Client-centered approach
- Practical coping skills
- Trauma-informed care
About Catherine
Catherine Wasson is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, and grief. She uses a direct, respectful style and focuses on each person’s real needs. Catherine’s background covers mood concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, career changes, and compassion fatigue.
She brings seven years of clinical experience and holds the credentials LICSW, LCSW, and CSW. Catherine has worked with people facing depression, bipolar challenges, panic attacks, and post-traumatic stress. She also supports those coping with self-harm thoughts, shame, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
Her way of working is interactive and client-centered. That means she listens first and then tailors conversations and steps to what helps each person move forward. She blends Client-Centered Therapy with practical tools from cognitive behavioral and solution-focused approaches to make therapy useful day to day.
When trauma is a part of someone’s story, she may use methods aimed at processing difficult memories and reducing their hold on daily life. Mindfulness skills and brief coaching techniques are also part of how she helps people manage symptoms and build new routines.
Catherine practices in Virginia and conducts sessions in English. If you think this approach might fit, follow the site’s steps to start a match and schedule a session.
How therapy methods translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building understanding first. In this approach the therapist follows the person’s lead and helps them name what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and uses practical exercises to change patterns that keep people stuck. EMDR is a trauma-focused method that aims to reduce the intensity of painful memories through structured processing techniques. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels comfortable, then try methods that fit those priorities. That conversation often includes short experiments in session so people can see what helps before committing to a plan. Confirm session options before booking so you know what formats are offered. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by removing commute time and allowing sessions during a lunch break or between obligations. It can also allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and some methods adapt well to conversation-based or skills-focused visits. If you want a certain format, confirm it up front during the matching and scheduling steps.Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Also works with
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
7+ years
Listed in
Colorado, Virginia, New Jersey, District of Columbia
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, career challenges, and compassion fatigue.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is open and interactive, focusing on listening first and shaping sessions around each person’s needs using client-centered and practical methods.
What experience does she bring to sessions?
She has seven years of clinical experience working with people facing mood concerns, trauma, homelessness-related stress, panic, and other mental health challenges.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds LICSW, LCSW, and CSW credentials and practices in Virginia.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin therapy?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist’s availability.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger, use the crisis numbers.