About Catherine
Catherine Edwards is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship pain, and the aftermath of trauma or abuse. She meets clients where they are and focuses on practical steps to reduce overwhelm and restore connection. Her work is grounded in everyday language and real change, not jargon.
With four years of clinical experience, Catherine draws on therapies that address thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, and patterns between people.
Background and approach
She uses somatic awareness to notice how the body holds stress and trauma. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and small committed actions. Cognitive behavioral strategies and emotion-focused work help change unhelpful patterns and repair emotional bonds.
Clients often bring worries about attachment, abandonment, and communication struggles. Catherine also supports people dealing with blended family tensions, caregiving strain, codependency, and issues around guilt or forgiveness. She helps those coping with divorce or the ongoing effects of family of origin problems.
Sessions typically explore what’s happening now and offer simple, usable tools to try between meetings. Conversations can include tracking physical reactions, practicing new ways to speak to a partner, and setting doable steps toward clearer boundaries. Catherine holds a Pennsylvania LMFT license.
She provides services in English and sees people across Pennsylvania. Her style aims to be direct, compassionate, and collaborative, helping clients find more ease in their bodies and relationships.
How Catherine blends somatic and evidence-based work online
Somatic work helps people notice how stress and trauma show up in the body, such as tightness, shallow breathing, or racing heart. Online sessions can include guided awareness of those sensations and simple practices to ease physical tension. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters and taking small actions toward those values, which is useful when anxiety or uncertainty gets in the way. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thought patterns and practical skills to shift unhelpful beliefs and behaviors, often with exercises to try between sessions. Choosing an approach is a team effort. Catherine will talk with each person about goals, past attempts, and personal preferences. Together they decide whether to focus more on bodily awareness, values-driven action, or thought-behavior work, and that plan can change as the work unfolds. Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, while phone sessions offer flexibility when video isn’t possible. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins and the chance to get support between scheduled sessions. These options help people practice skills in the settings where they need them most.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English