About Catherine
Catherine Costa is a licensed clinical social worker in Rhode Island. She holds a LICSW and brings three years of professional experience to her practice. She focuses on practical help for everyday struggles, including stress, anxiety, and life transitions.
She works in a respectful, compassionate way and listens first to what matters to each person. Sessions focus on setting clear goals and taking small steps toward them. Catherine helps clients break problems into manageable pieces and build momentum toward change.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on several proven methods. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow the client's lead and build a trusting relationship. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
She also uses Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused ideas to boost motivation and find realistic next steps. Catherine pays attention to how life roles and responsibilities affect daily functioning. She supports people dealing with parenting challenges, workplace stress, grief, trauma, and issues around identity and relationships.
ADHD is listed among her areas of focus and she offers strategies to manage attention, organization, and routine challenges. Her style is straightforward and collaborative. Catherine works with each person to shape a plan that fits their life and goals.
The emphasis is on usable tools and measurable progress rather than long, abstract talk.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the client's priorities, allowing the session to follow what matters most. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort through feelings and choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It breaks big problems into specific skills and tasks, which can help with anxiety, low mood, and patterns that get in the way of daily life.
Motivational Interviewing is a short-term approach that helps people find their reasons for change and build commitment. It can be useful when someone feels stuck or unsure how to move forward.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made.
Online sessions can be done by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes scheduling easier around work, childcare, or other commitments. Phone calls use less bandwidth than video, short messaging can fit into a busy day, and video allows deeper face-to-face conversation when desired. This range of formats gives practical flexibility so clients can maintain regular contact and apply new skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
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