Cathy Bottrell, LICSW, LCSW

Cathy Bottrell is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people through grief, loss, illness, and life transitions. She brings 23 years of experience to sessions and aims to create a calm, respectful space for talking about hard things.

She uses clear, practical methods to help people cope with anxiety, depression, stress, and adjustment to medical issues. Cathy also helps clients facing adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and the challenges that come with aging and geriatric issues.

Cathy draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, client-centered work, and mindfulness to shape each conversation. Sessions emphasize understanding what matters to the person and building small, doable skills for daily life.

She provides counseling for teens and adults and offers support for relationship difficulties, intimacy questions, parenting strain, and career concerns. Cathy also addresses addiction, trauma, and anger in straightforward ways that focus on problem solving and emotional awareness.

Her practice centers on walking alongside people through change. Cathy encourages clients to process past experiences, build coping strategies for the present, and prepare for future challenges. To begin, visitors are invited to take a first step toward change.

Using ACT, CBT, and Mindfulness Online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most and take small actions toward those values while facing painful thoughts or feelings. It can be useful for grief, anxiety, depression, and dealing with major life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing practical strategies to change behaviors and mood, which often helps with anxiety, insomnia, and low mood. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and increase calmness, and it pairs well with work on stress, caregiver strain, and chronic illness.

Finding the right fit is part of the work. Cathy approaches the process collaboratively and will discuss different approaches with each person. Together they decide which methods match the client’s needs, goals, and preferences, and they adjust the plan as progress is made.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, avoid travel, and pick a time that works around caregiving or medical appointments. It can also allow shorter check-ins when a quick touchpoint is needed, or nonvideo options when bandwidth or on-camera time is a concern. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to the online setting so work continues between sessions.