Catherine Pettus, LCSW

Catherine Pettus is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She brings 15 years of practice to sessions and aims to make conversations feel calm and helpful. Her style is warm and interactive and she emphasizes respect and patience as people work through difficult moments.

She uses everyday talk and practical steps to address grief, anger, low self-esteem, and big life changes. Catherine adapts the pace to each person and avoids stigmatizing labels. She emphasizes dignity and honesty during the process.

Her background includes helping people cope with caregiver stress, relationship and family of origin issues, and feelings of isolation or shame. She has worked with adults across a wide age range and supported clients affected by emotional, sexual, or physical abuse.

Catherine draws on a mix of approaches including cognitive-behavioral tools, attachment ideas, mindfulness, and solution-focused strategies. Sessions focus on clear goals, skills people can use between meetings, and practical ways to lower everyday stress.

She asks questions, listens closely, and tailors her plan to each person’s needs. That can mean learning new ways to handle anger, building routines to ease anxiety, or practicing mindful moments that break intense reactions. Catherine aims to help people find steady ways to move forward.

How therapy approaches shape online care

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current reactions. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and manage urges that come from feeling unsafe or abandoned. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts and behaviors affect mood. It teaches practical skills to reduce worry, challenge unhelpful thoughts, and change habits that fuel anxiety. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to interrupt spirals of stress and bring focus back to the present moment.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit goals and daily life. That means talking about what feels useful, trying small changes, and adjusting the plan as progress happens.

Session logistics should be confirmed before booking since formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also makes continued weekly work more predictable for people juggling caregiving or work responsibilities. Confirm current session options when you schedule so the format matches your needs.