Carrie Catterson-Fitzmaurice

Carrie Catterson-Fitzmaurice is a licensed social worker practicing in Kansas with 14 years of experience. She holds the Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker credential (LSCSW) and the Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential (LCSW). Carrie creates a relaxed, straightforward space where people can talk honestly about what’s hard for them.

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, addictions, and relationship problems. She also helps people facing grief, trauma and abuse, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and major life changes. She supports parents who are juggling parenting and family strain and addresses communication problems and feelings of emptiness.

Carrie’s clinical style blends solution-focused work with cognitive behavioral therapy. Sessions aim to set clear, achievable goals and build small steps toward them. She uses plain language, encourages humor, and asks direct questions to help people notice what’s getting in the way.

Her background includes in-home work with families on substance use, parenting, organization, and relationship issues, and experience with older adults around adjustment and loss of independence. That range informs a practical, down-to-earth approach to common life problems.

People who prefer a goal-oriented, no-nonsense therapist often find this style helpful. Carrie invites honesty and self-reflection, and she helps people turn insight into everyday changes.

How Carrie’s approaches translate to online work

Many of Carrie’s approaches are practical and goal-focused, and they adapt well to conversation-based sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. It’s useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and coping with life changes. Motivational Interviewing focuses on a person’s own reasons for change and can help with addictions, ambivalence, and building motivation.

Solution-Focused Therapy looks at what is already working and builds small, realistic steps toward preferred outcomes. It’s brief and action-oriented, which many people like when they want concrete progress. Carrie will work with clients to figure out which combination of these approaches fits their goals and preferences in a collaborative way.

Confirm the current session options before booking to know what formats are offered. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Different approaches also suit different practical needs - CBT can include short homework between sessions, while solution-focused work often focuses on quick goal-setting that people can try between meetings. Carrie helps people shape sessions so they fit daily schedules and real-world demands.