Cathy Christensen-Curry , LCSW

Cathy Christensen-Curry is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Montana. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and challenges tied to relationships and life transitions. Cathy aims to create a calm, respectful space where clients feel heard and understood.

Cathy brings 20 years of experience to sessions. She emphasizes improving relationships with self and others, believing healing often happens inside a trusting connection. Her manner is warm and compassionate and she listens closely to each person’s needs.

In practical work she addresses a wide range of concerns such as trauma and abuse, parenting strain, addiction, grief, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, anger, low self-esteem, and ADHD-related struggles. She also supports people facing career changes, compassion fatigue, and family-of-origin or attachment concerns.

Cathy uses several approaches to guide sessions, including attachment-based and client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, emotionally-focused strategies, and mindfulness practices. She steers conversations toward manageable steps people can try between meetings.

The goal of sessions is to help people feel stronger and more competent in day-to-day life. Cathy focuses on practical skills, clearer communication, and rebuilding trust in relationships. She works with each person to set realistic goals and track progress over time.

Approaches that translate to online care

Cathy uses attachment-based ideas and client-centered work to help people feel more connected to themselves and others. Attachment-based work focuses on patterns of relating that developed over time and helps people notice and change how they respond in close relationships. Client-centered methods put the person’s experience at the center of the session and emphasize listening, empathy, and the client’s own strengths.

She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. CBT tools can be useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating problems by turning insights into practical steps. Cathy treats choosing an approach as a team process and will help clients decide which mix of ways of working fits their goals, needs, and preferences.

Online sessions allow flexibility in how people connect. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work well when lower bandwidth or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support ongoing check-ins, brief coaching, or moments when writing out thoughts helps more than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and maintain steady momentum between meetings.