Cathryn Charette

Cathryn Charette is a licensed marriage and family therapist with five years of clinical experience in California. She draws on a humanistic approach that highlights a person’s strengths and practical skills. Cathryn focuses on helping people understand themselves better and build clearer ways to handle stress, anger, and relationship strain.

She encourages self-awareness and simple mindfulness practices so people can respond thoughtfully to hard moments. Cathryn talks with clients about values, motivations, and everyday choices that shape how they feel and act. She helps people learn healthier boundaries and more comfortable ways of relating to others.

Cathryn describes recovery from painful experiences as a process of earning security. She supports clients working through childhood or adult trauma, grief, depression, addiction concerns, and life changes. Her work also addresses intimacy, parenting stress, body image, and compassion fatigue among other concerns.

In sessions she blends practical, evidence-informed methods with a warm, nonjudgmental stance. Cathryn uses approaches like acceptance-based work, attachment-focused ideas, and client-centered talk to build understanding and skills. She aims to help people increase self-esteem, manage emotions, and make choices that fit their values.

Clients can expect a patient, supportive tone and straightforward tools to use between sessions. Cathryn says healing often involves learning new patterns of thought and behavior, and she offers a steady space to practice those changes.

How these approaches fit into online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small, value-driven steps even when feelings are difficult. It can help with anxiety, depression, anger, and decision-making. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns of connection and trust in relationships and helps people develop more secure ways of relating and setting boundaries. Client-Centered Therapy centers on understanding the person’s experience through empathic listening and reflection to foster self-acceptance and growth.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to concerns, goals, and daily routines and then suggest which methods to try. Clients and therapist check in over time and adjust approaches based on what helps most in real life.

Confirm current session options before booking to know which online formats are available. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, shorten travel time, and allow quicker check-ins during stressful periods. Some methods translate well to remote sessions because they emphasize skills practice, mindful exercises, and values-based homework that can be done between meetings. Licensed professionals can guide pacing and practical steps so therapy fits into everyday life.