Catherine Colardo , LCSW

Catherine Colardo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 13 years of clinical experience. She uses a warm, down-to-earth style to help people navigate anxiety, depression, grief, and life changes. Catherine emphasizes a collaborative relationship and aims to make the room feel approachable and practical for someone seeking help.

She draws on a mix of practical methods to address stress, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, addiction concerns, and relationship problems. Sessions focus on clear goals and small steps that fit into everyday life. Catherine works with people facing issues related to identity and LGBT concerns, intimacy, self-esteem, and coping skills for ADHD and bipolar mood challenges.

Her background includes work across many settings where she supported people through domestic violence, foster care and adoption issues, caregiver stress, and family conflict. That experience shaped her focus on communication, boundary setting, and problem solving. She has also helped people manage anger, impulsivity, isolation, and the effects of loss.

Catherine blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness practices, client-centered care, and motivational interviewing. These approaches are used to build awareness, change unhelpful patterns, and strengthen motivation for change. She helps people translate ideas into repeated behaviors that improve daily functioning.

Conversations are practical and paced to the individual. Catherine respects each person’s values and works to uncover strengths already present. Her goal is to help people feel more steady, more able to make choices, and more connected to what matters to them.

Practical therapeutic approaches for online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking meaningful action despite uncomfortable thoughts or feelings. It helps people who feel stuck by teaching simple ways to notice thoughts and choose actions that align with what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses small experiments and skill practice to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful patterns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and building a trusting relationship so clients feel understood and can access their own strengths.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. Catherine works collaboratively to learn about the client’s goals, needs, and preferences, then blends techniques that fit those aims. Over a few sessions she and the client check what’s helping and adjust the plan as needed so therapy stays practical and relevant.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets you use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into varied schedules and life demands.