Cathy Walker, LPC (she/her)

Mindfulness-based

So many of us have busy minds that interferes with living our lives the best we can. By using mindfulness techniques, we can become aware of what is happening in the moment and learn to stay out of the past and project into the future. This helps tremendously with depression, anxiety, and relationships.

Eclectic

I don't believe that there is a 'one size fits all' theory of counseling that works for all issues. I believe that being person-centered is essential to every therapeutic relationship and provides the basis for change to occur. Sometimes, a CBT technique could help, sometimes an an attachment based intervention might work - I attempt to sit with clients and work with what seems best for them.

Personal Growth

Sometimes, we just feel stuck. What if we 'checked all the boxes' and still don't feel happy or fulfilled? What if we didn't? There are various life events - birthdays, marriages, birth of a child, layoffs, death of a parent, divorce - that can make us pause and reflect, 'What now?' Therapy can help us discover our answers.

Loss or Grief

As a suicide loss survivor and a past outreach volunteer for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, I have worked with many people who have experienced the devastating loss of a death by suicide. Additionally, there are the life losses of divorce, illness, job loss and aging. Therapy can help us try to make sense of our emotions around the loss, move through our feelings about the losses and achieve some sense of meaning from them.

Anxiety

Anxiety is a normal part of life - until it becomes so overwhelming that it shuts us down. I use cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical therapy and mindfulness techniques which have been shown to effectively lessen or eliminate extreme anxiety symptoms.

Depression

Depression can affect us by feeling we're in a 'funk' all the way to feeling like we are moving through a fog carrying a heavy black weight. We can feel powerless to change it. I use a variety of techniques such as assessing whole life balance, cognitive behavior therapy, and Gestalt therapy to empower clients to get out of the fog.