Cathrine Kearns, LCSW

Cathrine Kearns is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of practice based in Florida. She helps people who are coping with anxiety, stress, depression, grief, relationship and family concerns, trauma, and issues related to LGBT identity. She also addresses everyday struggles like sleep problems, eating concerns, anger, self-esteem, and career stress.

She uses a collaborative style that treats therapy as a team effort. Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings. Cathrine aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about difficult topics without feeling blamed.

Her approach draws on methods that look at thoughts and everyday habits to reduce symptoms and improve coping. Cathrine blends cognitive behavioral ideas with mindfulness and solution-focused techniques to help people notice unhelpful patterns and test small changes. Motivational interviewing and trauma-focused methods are added when exploring readiness for change and processing difficult events.

She has two master’s degrees, one in Counseling and Psychology and one in Social Work, and holds the LCSW credential, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Cathrine has worked with a wide range of concerns over two decades, including more complex situations such as chronic illness, caregiver stress, adoption and foster care issues, and attachment-related challenges.

People who meet with her can expect direct conversation about goals, short-term strategies to try, and regular check-ins on progress. She welcomes clients who prefer a practical, thought-focused way of working and those looking for support through life transitions.

How her approaches translate to online work

Many of her methods focus on noticing thoughts and everyday habits, then trying small changes to reduce distress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thought patterns and test new behaviors to ease anxiety, low mood, and sleep or eating struggles. Mindfulness Therapy encourages simple attention and grounding practices to reduce reactivity and improve daily coping.

Motivational Interviewing is used when people feel stuck about making a change; it helps clarify values and boosts readiness to try something different. Cathrine treats finding the best approach as a team effort. She will talk with each client about goals and preferences and then adapt techniques to fit those aims.

The biography does not specify exact online session types, so confirm available formats before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, reduce travel time, and allow short check-ins when a brief touchpoint is needed. Some approaches translate well to remote sessions because they use practical homework, focused skill practice, and clear goal review that fit into everyday life.