About Cathrine
Cathrine Troy brings an approach rooted in practical tools and life experience. She combines 35 years of work with intuition, empathy, and ongoing learning to guide people through hard moments. Cathrine speaks plainly and helps clients take realistic steps toward change.
She holds LPCC, which is a New Mexico counseling credential. Her sessions focus on real-life problems like addiction, stress, anxiety, and depression. She also helps with relationship concerns, parenting challenges, grief, and trauma.
Background and approach
Cathrine draws on her background as an adoptive parent to support adoption and foster care issues and attachment concerns. Cathrine uses creative and practical strategies to address emotional blocks and unhealthy patterns. Conversations may include exploring beliefs, trying new behaviors, and developing coping skills that fit daily life.
She pays attention to cultural and multicultural factors that shape each person’s story. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She treats each person as the expert on their life while offering tools and reflections that can open new ways forward.
Sessions aim to be straightforward and goal-oriented when that’s helpful. People who work with Cathrine can expect help with self-esteem, intimacy-related matters, career stress, and issues such as ADHD, eating concerns, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses specialized topics like fertility, immigration, veteran and armed forces issues, and prejudice and discrimination.
Therapy is offered from New Mexico and conducted in English. Cathrine supports people seeking steady, practical change and helps them map steps they can use between sessions.
Approaches that help online and in daily life
Evidence-based techniques in Cathrine's work focus on practical change and emotional processing. One common approach emphasizes building coping skills and behavioral strategies to reduce stress, manage anxiety, and address addiction-related patterns. These methods show people concrete steps they can practice between sessions.Another approach centers on exploring attachment and relationship patterns to improve intimacy and parenting interactions. This involves noticing repeated responses, testing new ways of connecting, and strengthening self-awareness around relational triggers.
Choosing a specific approach is a collaborative process. Cathrine will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods as progress and needs evolve. The aim is to find workable techniques the client can use outside sessions.
Online therapy offers flexibility that often helps people keep therapy consistent. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick reflections, brief updates, or moments when writing helps organize thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapeutic work into a busy life and maintain momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English