About Cathy
Cathy Foster is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, and life changes. She writes plainly and listens closely to what matters most. Her style aims to make therapy feel practical and manageable for daily life.
Her work combines clear, goal-oriented methods with a supportive, person-centered approach. Sessions often include simple exercises to manage strong emotions and steps to change unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to teach coping skills and improve mood. Cathy also draws on mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people find motivation and calm. She talks through habits, thinking patterns, and relationships to help clients make realistic changes.
The focus is on concrete progress rather than clinical labels. With 14 years of experience, Cathy brings a steady, practical presence to sessions. She has worked with a range of concerns including trauma, eating and sleeping problems, parenting stress, anger, self-esteem, bipolar mood issues, and intimacy-related worries.
She helps people clarify values and set small, doable goals. Therapy with her typically starts with simple steps and clear goals. Cathy uses conversational techniques and hands-on strategies so people can practice between sessions.
The aim is to reduce overwhelm and build stronger daily routines and coping skills.
How these approaches translate to online sessions
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments. Online CBT often includes worksheets, short skills practice, and planning real-life experiments to reduce anxiety or improve mood.Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. In virtual sessions this can mean learning specific grounding techniques, practicing breathing or mindfulness exercises, and role-playing communication skills over video or chat.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and collaborating on what matters most. The therapist offers empathy and warmth while clients set the pace and goals for change.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cathy will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their goals and preferences. That plan can change over time as progress is made and needs shift.
Online formats offer flexibility. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and skill demonstration, phone sessions work well when a camera is not needed, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and text messaging helps with ongoing reminders and brief coaching. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English