About
Catherine Patterson-Sterling  PhD RCC

Helping People Find Solutions Behind Problems

My journey as a counsellor, public school teacher, university instructor, curriculum designer, and manager of different drug and alcohol treatment facilities over the past 25 years means that I have helped many people find solutions behind their problems. With a PhD in Forensic Psychology specializing in online/cyber issues and with a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology, I have helped individuals with the following issues:

• High conflict relationship issues, often involving betrayal of trust, drugs/alcohol, shopping or gambling addictions, and online issues particularly such as pornography or sex addiction.  (Note that I do not provide counselling to couples involved in litigation with one another.)

• Families working through communication, neurodivergence, learning disabilities, or other issues impacting development as well as growth

• Career transitions and toxic work atmosphere stress

• Anxiety and depression that has energy and is beginning to steal people’s happiness

• Grief which can include passing of loved ones or even emotional death as relationships have reached an estrangement stage

What is My Approach?

I will meet you where you are at in your journey and collaboratively, we will set goals together. If you want to, we will create a toolbox of strategies so that you are empowered to find solutions that work for you to overcome problems that have been growing or may have even be unattended to for years. My counselling practice is an integration of CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), Narrative (working on whether stories/beliefs we have of ourselves serve us anymore), and Adlerian (finding ways to meet our goals positively while getting out of patterns of self-sabotage).

At any time in life we can create a new start line and hit a re-set button on the path to being our best selves while living the life we are blessed to have.

*Available for intensives (longer high impact sessions to get to the root of issues) and group sessions