Catherine Valentine, LCPC

Catherine Valentine is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 25 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and confidence concerns. She works with adults facing life transitions, addiction struggles, relationship or intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, and parenting stress. People meet her to get practical support for coping and to rebuild motivation and self-esteem.

She uses straightforward conversations to learn what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on the client's goals and strengths rather than on labels. Catherine draws from approaches such as acceptance and commitment strategies, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, and client-centered skills to shape each plan.

In practice she listens for what gets in the way of daily functioning and helps people build small, usable steps forward. That can include changing unhelpful thinking patterns, practicing present-moment awareness, or identifying values to guide choices. She also supports people handling trauma, family of origin concerns, bipolar and ADHD related struggles, and complex stresses like chronic illness or caregiver burden.

Catherine describes therapy as a collaborative process. She works to create clear goals and easy-to-use tools that fit into busy lives. Her background includes many years providing direct clinical care across a range of problem areas.

Sessions are offered in English and are provided from Illinois. If someone wants to begin, they follow the site’s Start Therapy process to match and schedule with her based on current options.

How Catherine Uses Therapy Models Online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what they value and take small steps toward those goals even when feelings are uncomfortable. It’s often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with chronic health challenges. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. It’s helpful for mood, sleep, and anxiety problems.

Catherine treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She listens to each person’s goals and tries methods that match their needs and preferences. Together they track what helps and adjust the plan as therapy progresses.

Session formats are not specified in her biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, shorten travel time, and enable quicker check-ins when issues come up. It also lets people use strategies learned in session in the very settings where challenges occur. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT or CBT skills to remote sessions so clients practice tools between meetings and measure progress over time.