Cathryn Charette, LMFT
Helping people build steadier reactions and clearer boundaries
Book with CathrynWorks with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
How Cathryn works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Years in practice
- 5
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Cathryn
Cathryn Charette is a licensed marriage and family therapist with five years of clinical experience based in California. She draws on humanistic ideas to help people build self-understanding, strengthen coping skills, and respond to stress and life changes with more choice. Cathryn offers a calm, nonjudgmental presence and focuses on practical steps clients can use between sessions.
Her work often centers on everyday challenges like anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, and anger.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with trauma, addiction, body image concerns, and compassion fatigue. Cathryn pays attention to how past attachments and family patterns shape current behavior and feelings. In sessions she teaches mindfulness and self-awareness practices to help people notice automatic reactions and choose different responses.
She encourages developing “earned security” - a steadier sense of self that comes from processing hurt and building new habits. Clients learn clearer boundaries, improved communication, and ways to manage strong emotions. Cathryn uses techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, attachment-based work, and client-centered methods.
These tools are used practically to solve problems, build skills, and shift unhelpful patterns. She explains exercises and goals in everyday language so they’re easy to try between sessions. Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Cathryn aims to help people feel more confident, act in line with their values, and handle life’s stresses with greater balance and choice.
What Cathryn works with
Everything Cathryn lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Cathryn's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Cathryn lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Evidence-informed approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and situations that feel overwhelming. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional reactions, helping people rework unhelpful patterns and build more supported ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. Cathryn treats the first few sessions as a time to learn what matters to the client and which techniques fit best. She works collaboratively to set goals and adjusts methods based on how someone responds and what they want to achieve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues and practice communication skills in real time. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a brief check-in. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief check-ins into a busy day and to try exercises between sessions. These options increase flexibility and help therapy fit into work, family, and daily routines.
Questions people ask about Cathryn
What kinds of concerns does she address?
Cathryn works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, anger, addictions, eating concerns, and ADHD-related challenges.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is humanistic and client-centered, with an emphasis on mindfulness and practical skills. Sessions focus on building self-awareness, setting boundaries, and trying concrete tools between meetings.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has five years of clinical experience working with adults on emotional and relationship concerns in California.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds a California LMFT credential and practices from California.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.