About Catherine
Catherine Towne-Coleman brings more than four decades of counseling experience to people in Arkansas and online. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on practical help for anxiety, depression, grief, parenting concerns, and career stress. Catherine uses straightforward, respectful talk to help people move past the roadblocks that get in the way of daily life.
She keeps sessions focused on what matters most to the client. Conversations are customized to a person's needs and goals.
Background and approach
Catherine draws on client-centered ways of working to listen deeply and build a therapeutic plan together. In sessions she also uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and try small, testable changes. Solution-focused ideas guide short-term goal setting when people want clear, achievable steps forward.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used when managing intense emotions or improving coping strategies. Catherine approaches work with honesty and compassion. She aims to treat everyone with respect and a positive attitude.
Her style is practical - she helps people set goals, practice new skills, and track progress over time. She supports people facing life transitions, workplace strain, communication problems, and issues around money or purpose. Catherine also helps with panic attacks, forgiveness work, and challenges common to young adults.
Her years of practice shape a steady, experienced presence in sessions.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting thoughts that make problems worse and testing small changes to behavior. It can help with anxiety, depression, panic, and workplace stress by teaching practical skills for daily life.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental conversation where the therapist listens and follows the client's priorities. This approach helps people feel heard while they sort out goals and next steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try techniques that match those aims, and adjust the plan as needed. This is a collaborative process that adapts to what helps the individual most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, family, or other commitments while still working toward clear goals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 41 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas
- Languages
- English