About Catherine
Catherine Schurman is a licensed clinical social worker with eight years of practice in Louisiana. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, mood concerns like bipolar disorder and depression, and attention-related difficulties such as ADHD. She aims to create a respectful, sensitive space where someone can start to feel understood.
Catherine adapts conversations and plans to fit each person's situation. That means she listens first, then helps set goals that are realistic and useful.
Background and approach
She uses practical strategies so people can try new habits between sessions and see what works. Her work also covers relationship strain, grief, trauma and abuse, addiction, and issues around intimacy or self-esteem. Catherine addresses problems with sleep, eating, anger, and career stress in straightforward ways.
She supports people in making change at a pace that feels manageable. She sees LGBT concerns as part of her practice and offers coaching-style help for practical life adjustments. Catherine places emphasis on respect and compassion in every conversation.
Her approach is steady and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people move forward. Starting therapy can feel hard, and she acknowledges that first step. Catherine helps people set small, achievable goals and checks progress as they go.
The work is collaborative and focused on real-life improvements.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Two common evidence-based approaches she uses are problem-focused therapy and goal-oriented coaching. Problem-focused work looks at specific patterns that cause stress or interfere with daily life and teaches step-by-step skills to change them. Coaching-style work emphasizes clear goals, practical strategies, and regular check-ins to track small gains and build momentum.Another useful approach centers on mood regulation and coping skills for conditions like depression, bipolar disorder, and ADHD-related challenges. This involves learning ways to manage routines, sleep, and attention, plus simple techniques to reduce overwhelm and improve day-to-day functioning.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their needs, preferences, and goals, then try methods that fit. Plans are adjusted over time based on what proves helpful in regular sessions.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are good for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep work moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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