Catherine Valentine, LCPC

Catherine Valentine is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 25 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and changes in life. She also helps with self-esteem, motivation, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strains, sleep problems, anger, ADHD, and bipolar challenges. Catherine speaks English and works from Illinois. She sees each person as the expert on their own life and starts by listening closely to what matters most. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking. Catherine aims to help people notice strengths they already have and use those strengths to address daily struggles. Her work draws from approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. That means clients may learn skills to manage thoughts, experiment with values-based actions, and shape goals in a way that feels meaningful and doable. Catherine also uses mindfulness and elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy when useful. These tools can support emotion regulation, reduce reactivity, and improve attention and focus in day-to-day life. For people concerned about aging and geriatric issues, caregiving stress, chronic illness, or family-of-origin problems, she brings long experience and a practical focus. Therapy is collaborative and paced to each person's needs. If someone is ready to begin, they are invited to complete the site’s short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to the available options.

Therapeutic approaches and online care options

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, even when emotions or tough thoughts show up. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers practical tools to change unhelpful patterns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the person’s own goals guide the work. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt methods so they fit the individual's needs. This process is collaborative and can shift over time as progress is made. Please confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific online formats. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example by removing commute time, allowing short check-ins during a work break, or offering sessions without being on camera. Licensed professionals can also use these formats to teach skills, practice new behaviors, and plan concrete next steps that carry into daily routines.