About Catherine
Catherine Calletto offers practical, person-centered therapy grounded in evidence-based techniques. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with eight years of clinical experience and provides calm, straightforward support for people managing stress, anxiety, trauma, and relationship strain. Catherine focuses on helping clients work through life changes and difficult emotions.
She listens for the problems that cause the most disruption and helps clients build clear, usable strategies to cope day to day.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize usable skills and steady progress rather than jargon or long explanations. Being part of the LGBTQIA+ community informs her approach, and she intentionally creates an accepting space for gender and sexuality topics. She also supports people navigating gender identity, kink and BDSM concerns, non-monogamous relationships, and sexuality-related questions.
She has experience addressing communication problems, family-related stress, guilt and shame, mood concerns, and post-traumatic stress. Catherine aims to make each session feel like a cooperative effort to solve the problems that matter most to the client. Her practice is based in Virginia, and she offers sessions in English.
Getting started begins with a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling that fits the client’s life. Catherine encourages a steady, realistic path forward and works with clients at a pace that feels manageable.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skill building and processing difficult experiences. One common approach she uses helps people learn coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as grounding, breathing, and step-by-step behavioral strategies that reduce overwhelm. This is useful for day-to-day symptoms and when anxiety flares.She also works with trauma-related concerns by helping clients process distressing memories and reduce their hold on current life. That work often includes pacing, stabilization strategies, and gradual exposure to build tolerance and reclaim safe functioning. These methods aim to make symptoms more manageable rather than promising quick fixes.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will discuss options with each person, consider their goals and preferences, and adjust methods over time. The client’s input helps shape what happens in sessions so the plan fits real life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face from another location. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick exchanges, brief updates, or ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats help clients fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity of care.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English