Catherine Sechrist

Catherine Sechrist is a licensed counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. She draws on nearly nine years of experience to support people through transitions and hard moments. Catherine uses a strengths-based, coaching-minded style to build trust and practical coping skills.

She takes a flexible approach rather than relying on a single method. Sessions focus on what is useful for the person in front of her - skills for anxiety, coping plans for grief, and steps to move through change. Catherine emphasizes small, doable actions that add up over time.

Her work often includes talking through self-esteem and body image concerns, addressing sleep and eating difficulties, and navigating workplace or career stress. She also supports people dealing with trauma, compassion fatigue, and first responder-related challenges. Catherine has experience helping teens who face bullying, body image worries, and anxiety.

Catherine combines several evidence-informed methods to match each person’s goals. She frames therapy as a shared process where the client’s values guide the work. People can expect clear goals, regular check-ins, and tools they can use between sessions.

She holds the credentials LPC, which denotes Licensed Professional Counselor, and LPMHC, Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor. Catherine works from Pennsylvania and conducts sessions in English.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical exercises to reduce unhelpful patterns and manage symptoms like panic, insomnia, or low mood.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods best match their goals and situation. That choice can shift over time as needs change, and sessions will include regular check-ins about what is helping.

Confirm the session formats available before booking, since this profile does not list specific options. Many people find online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, such as shorter check-ins during a work break or scheduling without travel time. Online work also lets therapists focus on skills, homework, and problem-solving between meetings so progress continues outside sessions.