About Cathalene
Cathalene Silver is a licensed clinician with 30 years of experience. She uses a person-centered approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, and identity questions. She aims to create a respectful, affirming space where people can talk honestly about what matters to them.
Her background includes long work with people facing depression, grief, trauma, and addiction. She also supports those dealing with compassion fatigue, career shifts, and intimacy-related issues.
Background and approach
Cathalene has experience helping people in the LGBT community with questions about identity and relationships. Therapy sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking. She draws on cognitive behavioral tools to notice and change unhelpful patterns.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people make room for difficult feelings while moving toward meaningful values. Attachment-based ideas guide work around connection and trust, especially when patterns from early relationships affect present-day bonds. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when people need tools for emotional regulation and distress tolerance.
Cathalene holds an Illinois LCPC and an Illinois LMFT and blends her approaches to match each person's needs. She works with adults across a range of life stages and concerns, offering straightforward guidance and steady support.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then taking steps toward what matters. It can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by clarifying values and small committed actions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical skills to change patterns that cause distress. It is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and problem solving.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist meets clients where they are and works together to choose techniques that fit their goals and preferences. That collaborative process can mean combining approaches so the work stays practical and focused on what the person wants to change.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules and needs. Video works well for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are handy when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Chat and messaging offer ongoing contact between sessions and a flexible way to share reflections or practice skills on the go.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English