Catherine Valentine, LCPC

Catherine Valentine is an IL Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 25 years of professional experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief and loss, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. Catherine encourages clients to notice their strengths and build on them one step at a time.

She approaches therapy as a collaborative process where the client’s perspective matters most. Catherine believes people carry important knowledge about their own lives, and she uses that understanding to shape practical steps forward. Sessions focus on clear goals and everyday tools to manage strong feelings and rebuild confidence.

Catherine draws on methods that include acceptance-based work, cognitive strategies, mindfulness, and skills for managing emotion and behavior. Those approaches are used to help with coping skills, decision making, sleep problems, and patterns that drain energy. The emphasis is on skills people can try between sessions.

Over her career she has supported people dealing with relationship strain, parenting concerns, addiction struggles, trauma and abuse, and long-term health or caregiving challenges. Her work also includes addressing issues such as body image, blended family difficulties, and aging-related stress.

People coming to Catherine can expect a steady, respectful presence and a focus on practical change. If you want straightforward support for a difficult season, she helps map out manageable steps toward feeling more in control and purposeful again.

Approaches that translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values. It helps people who feel stuck or overwhelmed by anxiety, low mood, or life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors to change feelings and outcomes. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress.

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. That conversation guides whether to emphasize acceptance, cognitive tools, mindfulness, or skills training in sessions.

Because the biography does not list specific online formats, confirm current session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, avoid travel time, and keep continuity during life transitions. It can also allow for shorter check-ins when schedules are tight or sessions that use only audio when bandwidth is limited. Licensed professionals are accustomed to adapting these approaches to a person’s routine and goals.