About Catherine
Catherine Rodriguez is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing in New York with three years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, or big life changes. Catherine speaks English and Spanish and centers work on the person in front of her.
Her approach treats clients as experts on their own lives. Sessions begin with simple conversations to identify what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
She helps people notice patterns that get in the way and build small, doable steps toward change. Catherine uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on mindfulness and acceptance strategies to help people tolerate difficult emotions and stay connected to their values.
Motivational interviewing is used when clients want extra support finding the drive to change. In practical terms she helps with family conflict, intimacy and relationship concerns, parenting strain, body image and eating related issues, and addiction-related struggles. She also supports people coping with depression, career questions, isolation, and identity concerns such as codependency or attachment struggles.
Sessions aim to be straightforward and goal-focused. Catherine offers collaborative coaching-style support alongside traditional therapy skills. She invites clients to set the pace, try small experiments between sessions, and reflect on what works for them.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without being hijacked by them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and testing small changes to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. It often helps with anxiety, obsessive patterns, and mood concerns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a warm, nonjudgmental conversation where the client leads the pace and topics; it supports building self-trust and clarity about goals.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Catherine will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and what feels doable. That might mean combining ACT, CBT, and client-centered methods during remote sessions to address thinking patterns, emotional tolerance, and personal values together.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide quick check-ins, brief coaching, and the option to reflect in writing between sessions. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into busy days and to continue progress from wherever someone is located within the therapist's permitted region.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish