Catherine Sechrist, LPC, LPMHC

Catherine Sechrist is a licensed counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and difficult life changes. She brings a calm, practical style to sessions and focuses on strengths to help people move forward. Catherine uses common-sense strategies so conversations stay grounded and useful.

She draws on almost nine years of clinical experience and adapts methods to what each person needs. Sessions tend to center on building coping skills, clarifying values, and setting small, realistic goals. She aims to make therapy a collaborative process where the client’s priorities guide the work.

Catherine uses a mix of approaches, including cognitive behavioral work to identify unhelpful thinking, acceptance-based practices to handle painful emotions, and solution-focused moves to find practical next steps. She also brings client-centered listening to make space for each person’s story. These methods are chosen to match the concern and the person’s preferences.

Her practice covers a broad set of concerns beyond anxiety and grief, such as sleep and eating difficulties, self-esteem, work stress, and compassion fatigue. Additional areas include body image, first responder issues, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, panic and phobias, and coping after disasters. She also supports people dealing with money stress, career questions, and end-of-life or hospice issues.

Catherine holds the credential LPC, which stands for Licensed Professional Counselor, and LPMHC, Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor. She conducts work from Pennsylvania and offers therapy in English.

How Catherine’s approaches translate to online therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety, panic, or low mood. Sessions often include practical exercises and short homework to practice new skills between meetings.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, value-driven steps even when difficult feelings are present. It can be useful for stress, grief, and ongoing worries that don’t resolve quickly.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Catherine will collaborate with each person to decide which methods feel most helpful based on their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process may shift the plan as therapy progresses.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow check-ins from quieter surroundings. Because session formats were not specified in the source biography, confirm current session options before booking. The focus is on making therapy practical and doable alongside everyday responsibilities.