Cathryn Charette, LMFT

Cathryn Charette, LMFT, brings five years of clinical experience and a humanistic outlook to therapy. She frames work around a person’s strengths and skills. Her approach aims to help people feel more confident, understand their motives, and make decisions that match their values. Cathryn describes therapy as a space for steady growth rather than quick fixes.

Cathryn draws on mindfulness and self-awareness to help people respond deliberately to life’s stresses. She talks with clients about boundaries, attachment, and how early experiences shape current relationships. The goal is practical change: clearer choices, steadier emotional responses, and stronger self-respect.

Her work pays attention to trauma and recovery. She uses ideas such as earned security to help people rebuild a sense of self after childhood or relationship trauma. This includes building self-compassion, patience, and the ability to be both autonomous and emotionally available.

Cathryn integrates evidence-based tools alongside humanistic values. She uses techniques from cognitive and behavioral approaches and from therapies that focus on emotions and relationships. Sessions are described as nonjudgmental, patient, and supportive, aimed at helping people meet their own goals.

People come to her for a range of concerns including stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, ADHD, body-image and caregiver stress. She also supports those dealing with aging, abandonment, chronic illness, and blended family difficulties. Cathryn invites clients to explore what matters most and to build a life guided by clearer personal values.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Cathryn uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy as part of her approach. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, and then move toward actions that match their values. It is often useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand closeness, trust, and boundaries, which can improve intimacy and relationship functioning.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to a client's goals and preferences, explain options, and adapt techniques over time. Clients and the therapist decide together which methods fit best for the concerns at hand and the pace the client prefers.

For practical matters, confirm the session formats before booking since the biography does not list specific online options. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy life. It lets people keep momentum between sessions, use short check-ins if needed, and reduce travel time. Some approaches lend themselves to skills practice or worksheets that can be used between meetings to support steady progress.