Catherine Pither, LPC

Catherine Pither is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who helps people facing the emotional fallout of trauma, loss, and life change. She focuses on everyday problems like anxiety, depression, grief, and low self-esteem. Her straightforward approach aims to make difficult feelings easier to name and talk about. Catherine draws on six years of clinical experience and personal experience with grief and trauma recovery. Sessions are meant to be a calm space to sort through emotions and the practical effects those emotions have on daily life. She listens for patterns that keep people stuck and looks for small, doable changes that can relieve pressure. Her work often addresses relationships and intimacy-related concerns, as well as family and caregiving stress. She also supports people dealing with eating and sleeping struggles, codependency, attachment wounds, abandonment issues, and the fallout from separation or domestic violence. Career stress and compassion fatigue are part of her caseload as well. In therapy she blends client-centered listening with methods that bring focus to emotions, personal stories, and present goals. Mindfulness-based practices are used to reduce overwhelm, while solution-focused ideas help set short-term aims. Narrative techniques help people rewrite painful life chapters into clearer stories. Catherine invites questions before starting and encourages prospective clients to pick a time to talk. Her practice is based in Connecticut and sessions are conducted in English.

How her approaches translate to online work

Catherine uses client-centered listening to make space for whatever feels most urgent. That approach focuses on understanding your concerns and priorities, then shaping sessions around what you bring. Emotionally-focused work helps identify and soften painful feelings in relationships and in how you relate to yourself, which can be useful for grief, intimacy struggles, and attachment wounds.

She also draws on mindfulness practices to help calm the nervous system and reduce overwhelming emotions. These are simple exercises you can learn in session and use between appointments to manage anxiety or sleeplessness. Together the approaches aim to be practical and person-focused rather than prescriptive. Finding the right approach is part of the process. Catherine will work collaboratively to try methods that match your goals and comfort level, and adjust what you’re doing if something isn’t helping. The plan is guided by your needs, whether the focus is mood, relationships, or coping with life changes.

The exact session formats are not specified here, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also lets people practice mindfulness and emotional work in the contexts where they live, and makes scheduling more flexible with work and family demands.