Catherine Barbour, LCSW

Licensed in Florida · 4 years in practice

Catherine Barbour is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Florida who bases sessions on a client-centered approach.

License and registration

LCSW, Florida: SW10227 · expires March 2027
NPI: 1063722569 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 4
Languages: English

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About Catherine

Catherine Barbour is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Florida who bases sessions on a client-centered approach. She focuses on clear goals and practical steps so people feel heard and move forward. Her work covers stress, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, trauma and addiction concerns.

She draws on cognitive behavioral tools to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Solution-focused techniques are used to set small, achievable goals and make steady progress.

Background and approach

Trauma-focused methods support processing past wounds when those experiences get in the way of daily life. Her background includes work in outdoor therapeutic programs, in-home counseling, and medical social work in hospital settings. Those different roles shaped a flexible style that adapts to what each person needs.

She has four years of documented clinical experience as an LCSW in Florida. Catherine often helps people who are coping with grief, chronic illness, caregiver stress, parenting challenges, and family communication problems. She also addresses anger, panic, ADHD, and burnout or compassion fatigue.

Sessions are practical and focused on real-life changes people can try between meetings. Her approach treats each person as an individual with strengths to build on. She aims to create a space for honest conversation and step-by-step planning.

If someone wants to work on self-esteem, manage anxiety, or find purpose after a major life change, she frames therapy as a collaborative process.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Catherine lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Family conflicts
Anger management
Self esteem
Depression
Addictions
Trauma and abuse
Grief
Parenting issues
Bipolar disorder
Coping with life changes
Compassion fatigue
ADHD
Blended family issues
Caregiver issues and stress
Chronic pain, illness, and disability
Communication problems
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Emptiness
Family problems
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Hospice and end-of-life counseling
Isolation / loneliness
Life purpose
Mood disorders
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Self-love
Social anxiety and phobia
Young adult issues

Approaches Catherine names

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Online support

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's priorities. In practice this means the therapist follows the client's lead, reflects concerns back, and helps clarify what matters most in life. It suits issues like low self-esteem, life purpose, and general stress.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses structured exercises and homework to test unhelpful beliefs and try new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, panic attacks, depression, and mood disorders.

Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people process past traumatic events so those memories stop driving current behavior. It includes pacing, grounding, and techniques to reduce the emotional charge of memories and is useful for trauma, abuse, and grief-related concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, comfort level, and the issues they want to address. That process may shift as progress is made and new priorities emerge.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat offers quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief updates or reflection between sessions. Those options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still using the same clinical approaches described above.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does she help with?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, parenting questions, and related issues like caregiver stress and chronic illness.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Sessions are client-centered and practical. She uses cognitive behavioral and solution-focused techniques along with trauma-focused approaches when needed.

What relevant experience does she bring?

Her background includes outdoor therapeutic programs, in-home counseling, and hospital-based medical social work, with four years of experience as an LCSW.

Where is she licensed and practicing?

She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Florida and lists Florida as her location.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can international clients work with her?

She does not accept international clients at this time.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.

How does cost and scheduling work?

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