Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
How Catherine works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Years in practice
- 12
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Catherine
Catherine Heil is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and trauma. She offers straightforward support for addictions, grief, relationship concerns, intimacy issues, and life changes. Catherine brings 12 years of clinical experience and a practical focus to conversations about coping and recovery.
She takes a warm, client-centered approach that aims to be direct and useful. Sessions focus on clear goals and steps clients can take between meetings.
Background and approach
Catherine uses methods that help people notice unhelpful thoughts, build new habits, and clarify values so choices feel more intentional. Her background includes inpatient and outpatient mental health settings as well as work inside correctional institutions. That variety shaped a hands-on clinical style that blends practical tools with empathetic listening.
Catherine earned a Bachelor of Social Work from Southeast Missouri State University and a Master of Social Work from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and holds a Missouri LCSW. Common themes she supports include coping with trauma and post-traumatic stress, process and sex addictions, obsessive behaviors, mood disorders such as bipolar, and challenges tied to ADHD and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses issues like codependency, control concerns, infidelity, and forgiveness. In sessions she often uses cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, solution-focused steps, and motivational interviewing. The work typically combines talking, skill practice, and planning practical next steps to handle real-life stressors.
What Catherine works with
Everything Catherine lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Catherine's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
Approaches Catherine lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice their thoughts and choose actions based on personal values rather than getting stuck in emotional reactions. It can be useful for anxiety, anger, and coping with life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with depression, anxiety, obsessive behaviors, and many addiction-related concerns.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging offer brief, on-the-go support and flexible ways to share between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and allow work to continue from different locations while focusing on practical coping skills and progress.
Questions people ask about Catherine
What concerns does she commonly address?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, anger, trauma, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, and coping with life changes.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is warm, client-centered, goal oriented, and practical. She focuses on steps people can use between sessions.
What is her professional background?
She has 12 years of clinical experience and has worked in inpatient and outpatient mental health settings and correctional institutions.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds a Master of Social Work and is a Missouri LCSW practicing from Missouri.
Which languages are offered and are international clients accepted?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
She meets through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin work with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.