About Catherine
Catherine Schully is a Licensed Professional Counselor with eight years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, LGBTQ concerns, low self-esteem, depression, and life changes. She uses clear, practical steps so clients can make small changes that add up. Sessions are straightforward and focused on real goals.
Catherine favors approaches that help people accept difficult feelings while still taking meaningful action. She often gives brief exercises or homework to practice between sessions.
Background and approach
Those tasks are meant to build new habits and make progress feel possible. In the room she listens closely and adapts to each person’s needs. Conversations move at a steady pace and focus on what matters most right now.
The tone is warm and curious, with an emphasis on usefulness. Her work includes attention to attachment issues, codependency, family of origin concerns, and challenges like isolation or life purpose questions. She also supports people dealing with gender dysphoria, sexuality questions, polyamory or non-monogamous relationship concerns, and trichotillomania.
Catherine practices in Arizona and uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centered therapy to guide sessions. She helps people learn ways to live alongside hard emotions while moving toward what they value most.
How ACT and Client-Centered Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small, consistent actions that move someone toward a meaningful life. This approach can be useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and life transitions.Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s experience at the center. The therapist listens deeply and follows the client’s lead, offering empathy and reflection. This style helps people feel heard and supports self-directed insight and change.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that match a person's goals, needs, and preferences. Together they may mix exercises, conversations, and brief practice tasks to see what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a short break at work. Live chat and text messaging make it easy to check in between appointments or to get support when scheduling a full session is hard. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity across different locations.
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What this counselor works with
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- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trichotillomania
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English