About Catherine
Catherine Goss is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 15 years of experience. She focuses on concerns such as stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, trauma, parenting strain, self-esteem, mood disorders, and ADHD. Her style is calm and direct, and she aims to make conversations feel safe and practical.
Catherine uses a person-centered stance in sessions. She listens actively and offers validation so people can feel understood. She also practices motivational strategies to help clients find reasons to change and stick with those changes.
Background and approach
She brings experience treating substance use and co-occurring mental health issues. That background helps when addictive patterns are tied to mood, impulsivity, or stress. Catherine pays attention to how emotions, behavior, and relationships influence one another.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are part of her toolbox. She teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions, reducing impulsive reactions, and improving interpersonal problems. Sessions include practice of these skills alongside supportive listening.
Catherine works with adults in Montana and conducts sessions in English. She offers a range of online formats so people can choose what fits their life. Her aim is to help people build steady coping, clearer priorities, and more control over daily routines.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting space so people feel heard and can decide their next steps. It helps with low mood, self-esteem concerns, stress, and the everyday impact of attention difficulties by prioritizing the person's goals and perspective.Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches practical skills for handling intense emotions, reducing impulsive actions, and improving relationships. These skills are useful for people dealing with mood swings, impulsivity, addictive urges, or panic symptoms because they break complex problems into step-by-step tools.
Choosing the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will review needs, goals, and preferences together and adapt the plan over time. That collaborative process helps make sure sessions stay focused on what matters most to the person.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can pick what fits their life. Video is good for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These formats offer flexibility for working around jobs, childcare, or travel while staying connected with licensed professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English
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