About Catherine
Catherine Colardo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 13 years of experience helping people through stressful life moments. She practices from North Carolina and offers straightforward, compassionate support for everyday struggles. Catherine keeps language simple and aims to make therapy feel approachable and usable for busy lives.
She listens first and helps people set clear, practical goals. Sessions focus on current needs like anxiety, depression, grief, parenting strain, ADHD-related challenges, relationship stress, trauma, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Catherine draws on a mix of therapies to fit each person's situation rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Catherine’s background includes a bachelor’s degree in social work from Appalachian State University and a master’s degree in social work from The University of South Carolina.
She has worked in a range of settings since 2007, supporting people through transitions, domestic violence recovery, foster care and adoption questions, and caregiver stress. Her style is warm and person-centered. She aims to come alongside clients, helping them notice what already works and build practical skills for daily life.
Techniques may include mindfulness, cognitive strategies, and motivational conversation to support change. Therapy with Catherine often focuses on short-term tools and longer-term coping skills. She helps people break problems into manageable steps, practice new habits, and track progress.
The goal is to leave sessions with something useful to try between meetings.
Practical approaches for online therapy and ADHD-related challenges
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice their thoughts and values and choose actions that matter to them. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, and getting unstuck when life feels overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on recognizing unhelpful thinking patterns and trying different behaviors to reduce symptoms; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and managing impulses. Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s experience first and uses empathy and listening to build a working relationship that supports exploring goals and choices.Finding the right fit is part of the therapy process. Catherine works collaboratively to match approaches to each person's needs and preferences. She will discuss what methods might help, try strategies together, and adjust based on what feels useful and realistic for daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls let people work face-to-face from their chosen location while phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or school schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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