About Catherine
Catherine Kluge is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 25 years of clinical experience in Missouri. She uses a client-centered approach and practical therapies to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and life transitions. Catherine aims to meet people where they are and support realistic steps toward better functioning and coping.
Her background includes work in hospitals, community mental health, and substance use treatment settings. This range of experience shaped a straightforward style that respects each person's story and strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and achievable changes rather than jargon or overly complex plans. Catherine often blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral strategies and motivational interviewing. She helps people identify unhelpful thought patterns, try new behaviors, and find motivation to change.
Narrative therapy is used to reframe stories that get in the way of progress. The practice addresses a broad set of concerns such as grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, eating and sleeping difficulties, and workplace strain. Other focus areas include ADHD, bipolar and mood-related conditions, panic and social anxiety, and substance use and co-occurring problems.
In sessions she emphasizes dignity, respect, and collaboration. Catherine looks to honor what has brought a person to this point while offering new tools to reach their goals. She works with people to set the pace and direction of therapy.
Therapeutic approaches in online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person rather than the problem. It involves listening with respect, following the client's lead, and helping people find their own solutions. This approach supports issues such as depression, relationship strain, grief, and life changes by building on strengths and values.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. It teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. CBT can help with anxiety, panic, mood problems, and managing stress or sleep difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Catherine will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means adjusting techniques over time and combining approaches when helpful.
Online formats offer flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text-based messaging suits brief updates or ongoing encouragement. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or other routines while using the therapeutic tools described above.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English