Cathrine Troy, LPCC

Cathrine Troy is an LPCC (Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor) based in New Mexico with 35 years of experience. She brings life experience, intuition, and ongoing education to sessions. She combines practical tools with a focus on emotional and spiritual growth to help people move forward.

Cathrine offers support for common concerns such as anxiety, stress, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, and parenting challenges. She also works with grief, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and care related to adoption and foster situations. Her background includes work with multicultural and immigration issues and veteran and armed forces matters that intersect with everyday life.

In sessions she treats each person as the expert in their own life and looks for strengths to build on. Her approach is collaborative and grounded in evidence-based therapeutic techniques alongside creative methods and coaching ideas. She aims to help people make small changes or navigate major life transitions depending on what they need.

Cathrine highlights practical steps clients can try between meetings and focuses on what can realistically fit into daily life. She invites honesty and openness and offers steady support while people try new ways of coping and relating. The goal is clearer direction and better functioning in the areas that matter most.

People interested in starting therapy follow an initial matching process and then schedule sessions according to availability. Cathrine works in English and provides care from her New Mexico practice.

How evidence-based techniques translate to online work

Cathrine uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques alongside creative and coaching tools. Cognitive-style methods focus on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new, more useful ways of thinking and behaving; these approaches often help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Behavioral strategies involve trying small, practical changes and building routines or habits to address addictions, parenting concerns, or coping with life transitions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past, then recommend methods to try. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made over time as needs evolve.

Many people find online therapy useful because it can fit more easily into a busy life and reduce time spent traveling to appointments. Online sessions can make it easier to keep regular meetings, try brief check-ins when schedules are tight, or use a format that requires less bandwidth if needed. Confirm the current session options before booking to match practical needs and availability.