About Cathy
Cathy Heaps-Stetson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with three decades of experience helping people through hard life changes. She combines a person-centered attitude with practical methods to help clients manage stress, grief, anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related concerns. Cathy speaks plainly and listens closely to what each person brings to a session.
She trained at Argosy University – Sarasota and holds the FL LMHC credential. Over thirty years she has worked with people facing terminal illness, loss, and major life transitions.
Background and approach
That background shapes a calm, steady approach in sessions. Cathy blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness tools. She uses reflective listening and gentle questions to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different patterns.
She teaches simple relaxation and mindfulness practices that can be used between meetings. Her style is empathic and non-directive while also focused on concrete steps. Sessions often include identifying thought patterns, practicing new coping skills, and setting small goals.
Cathy encourages people to test changes and notice what helps in daily life. People come for many concerns including relationships, parenting stresses, career strain, sleep and eating problems, trauma, and compassion fatigue. She helps individuals sort through barriers and make decisions that match their values.
Her long experience aims to make change feel manageable rather than overwhelming.
How Cathy’s Approaches Work Online
Cathy uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on empathetic listening and supporting each person to find their own solutions; it helps when someone needs space to talk and be heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with practical alternatives; it is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating problems, and coping with ADHD-related struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Cathy will collaborate with each person to see which methods fit their goals and preferences. She listens to what is most important, suggests techniques to try, and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face when they prefer visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging provide brief, ongoing support between sessions or for people who find typing more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy life and keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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