About Catherine
Catherine Swiatocha is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with six years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and relationship or family concerns. Catherine adapts her approach to each person's situation and aims to create a respectful, compassionate space to talk about hard things.
She works with clients on parenting challenges, intimacy-related issues, self-esteem, and life transitions.
How Catherine works
She also helps people coping with bipolar disorder, chronic illness or pain, and the stresses of caregiving. Additional areas she addresses include communication problems, abandonment and attachment concerns, body image, and isolation or loneliness. Catherine emphasizes collaboration.
She listens first, then tailors a plan built around each person's goals and strengths. Conversations are straightforward and focused on skills you can use between sessions. She also offers coaching-style support when clients want practical tools to move forward.
Her style is warm and direct. She aims to reduce shame and build realistic steps toward change. Catherine encourages clients to name what matters most and to try small, manageable shifts that add up over time.
To begin, she asks people to describe their current struggles and what they hope to get from working together. From there she and the client map out options and check in regularly to make sure the plan fits the client’s needs.
What Catherine works with
The areas below are the ones Catherine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How evidence-based methods fit into online therapy
Many therapists use evidence-based techniques that teach practical skills and change unhelpful patterns. One common approach focuses on building coping skills for stress and anxiety, teaching breathing, grounding, and problem-solving strategies to reduce daily overwhelm. Another method centers on processing trauma and difficult emotions through careful pacing and support so people can feel safer discussing painful memories and move toward healing.Finding the right approach usually happens together. The therapist will ask about your goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Then she will suggest methods to try and check in regularly to adjust the plan based on your progress and comfort level.
Confirm the specific online session options before booking since formats were not detailed in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow for more consistent check-ins. Some formats also let sessions be shorter or without video when that works better for scheduling or bandwidth. Licensed professionals can work with you to pick an arrangement that fits your life and therapeutic goals.
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