- Humanistic approach
- Values centered work
- Skill building
About Cathryn
Cathryn Charette, LMFT, followed a humanistic path into therapy to help people build stronger self esteem and clearer sense of self. She frames work around a person’s strengths and practical skills. Sessions focus on helping clients feel more confident, understand their motivations, and make decisions that match their values.
She uses mindfulness and self-awareness to help people respond instead of react. That can look like learning to notice difficult emotions, slow down, and choose actions that align with personal goals. She talks about learning healthy boundaries and more steady ways of relating when past care was inconsistent or hurtful.
Cathryn describes the goal of earned security - repairing the effects of childhood or relationship trauma so a person can feel steadier in themselves. She helps people strengthen their core sense of self and grow self-compassion, patience, and autonomy alongside warm connection to others.
Her approach blends humanistic ideas with specific, evidence-informed methods. She draws on cognitive tools, acceptance-based strategies, attachment work, and skills to manage intense emotions. That combination is used to address stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, body image, and parenting challenges among other concerns.
Cathryn has five years of clinical experience and works as a licensed marriage and family therapist in California. She offers an inclusive, patient, and nonjudgmental space for people from different backgrounds and life stages. If someone wants practical skill-building and clearer self understanding, she helps craft steps toward those goals.
She uses mindfulness and self-awareness to help people respond instead of react. That can look like learning to notice difficult emotions, slow down, and choose actions that align with personal goals. She talks about learning healthy boundaries and more steady ways of relating when past care was inconsistent or hurtful.
Cathryn describes the goal of earned security - repairing the effects of childhood or relationship trauma so a person can feel steadier in themselves. She helps people strengthen their core sense of self and grow self-compassion, patience, and autonomy alongside warm connection to others.
Her approach blends humanistic ideas with specific, evidence-informed methods. She draws on cognitive tools, acceptance-based strategies, attachment work, and skills to manage intense emotions. That combination is used to address stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, body image, and parenting challenges among other concerns.
Cathryn has five years of clinical experience and works as a licensed marriage and family therapist in California. She offers an inclusive, patient, and nonjudgmental space for people from different backgrounds and life stages. If someone wants practical skill-building and clearer self understanding, she helps craft steps toward those goals.