Catherine (Cate) Beaton

Catherine (Cate) Beaton is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 15 years of experience. She brings a practical, people-first approach shaped by years working in emergency care and supervising clinicians. Cate focuses on helping people navigate stress, loss, mood shifts, and big life transitions like divorce and separation.

Her early work as a paramedic showed her how trauma and human connection shape recovery. That experience led her to earn a Master’s Degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology and later an Educational Specialist Degree in School Psychology. Those studies inform how she balances practical coping skills with attention to meaning and relationship.

In clinical and leadership roles she supported coworkers and supervisees, building experience in guiding helpers and first responders through burnout and compassion fatigue. She has roughly a decade of clinical supervision experience and continued study in trauma and behavior.

In sessions she draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Existential Therapy, and EMDR to address anxiety, depression, PTSD, ADHD, and family-related stress. She aims to help people notice what matters, learn skills that work, and make choices that match their values.

Cate emphasizes being seen, heard, and understood. She invites people to talk through parenting strain, career stress, relationship pain, and grief in an honest, down-to-earth way. If you want help sorting choices and coping tools, she can work with you to set clear, manageable goals.

How these approaches translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take manageable steps toward those values while accepting hard feelings. It can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to improve mood and functioning; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an approach used to work with traumatic memories and the strong reactions they cause, helping reduce their intensity over time.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as needed based on results and comfort.

Confirm the available session options before booking, as formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by reducing travel time and allowing sessions during lunch breaks or between commitments. It can also make shorter check-ins simpler when time is limited, or let someone choose audio-only if they prefer not to be on camera. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, CBT, and EMDR elements for remote sessions so people can practice skills and process difficult material from their daily routine.