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Cathy Heaps-Stetson, LMHC

  • Experience30 years
  • LocationFlorida
  • Focus areasADHD, Stress and Anxiety, and Trauma and abuse
  • Therapy approachesClient-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
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About Cathy

Cathy Heaps-Stetson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with three decades of experience helping people navigate major life changes and emotional challenges. She practices from a person-centered perspective that emphasizes empathy, reflective listening, and supporting clients as they discover their own solutions.

Background and approach

Cathy blends cognitive and mindfulness-based techniques to help clients identify unhelpful thought patterns and learn practical skills for managing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and ADHD-related concerns. Her work also addresses relationship and family dynamics, intimacy issues, caregiving stress, career concerns, and a broad range of life transitions including loss and illness.

Cathy integrates Emotionally-Focused and Solution-Focused methods alongside client-centered care to balance exploration of feelings with concrete strategies for change. Based in Florida, she brings a calm, supportive presence while encouraging clients to build confidence and take active steps toward their goals.

Over a long career in counseling, training, and education, Cathy has worked with people facing terminal illness, bereavement, and many other barriers to wellbeing. She frames therapy as a collaborative process, offering guidance and questions while honoring each person’s capacity to find answers and move forward.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Client-centered therapy focuses on the therapeutic relationship and empathic listening, offering space for clients to explore feelings and arrive at their own solutions while receiving nonjudgmental support. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify and reframe unhelpful thoughts and develop practical coping skills for issues like anxiety, depression, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) emphasizes understanding and reshaping emotional responses in relationships to improve connection and reduce distress.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Cathy works with clients to evaluate their needs, goals, and preferences and will tailor a combination of methods to fit each situation rather than using a single fixed model. This partnership helps ensure the work aligns with what the client hopes to achieve.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility and access. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life changes, and use different formats for skills practice, check-ins, or in-depth work with licensed professionals and therapists.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of issues does Cathy address?
Her practice covers stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, coping with life changes, relationship and family concerns, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting challenges, anger, self esteem, career and coaching needs, compassion fatigue, and ADHD among other areas.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She uses a person-centered, empathic stance combined with cognitive behavioral, emotionally-focused, mindfulness, and solution-focused techniques to balance emotional exploration with practical skill building.
What is her background and level of experience?
Cathy has worked in counseling, education, training, and support roles for 30 years and draws on long experience with issues such as grief, serious illness, and major life transitions.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds the credential FL LMHC MH10222 and practices in Florida as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor.
Does she offer services in other languages or accept international clients?
Sessions are provided in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available for remote work?
Clients can meet through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on their preferences and scheduling options.
How are fees and subscriptions handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What is the first step to begin therapy?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyTrauma and abuseGriefDepressionCoping with life changes

Also works with

Relationship issuesFamily conflictsIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersSleeping disordersParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesCoachingCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

Aging and geriatric issuesBlended family issuesCancerCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityDivorce and separationDomestic violenceEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFatherhood issuesFirst responder issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameHospice and end-of-life counselingInfidelityLife purposeMidlife crisisMood disordersPanic disorder and panic attacksPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-loveSexual assault and abuseSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Mindfulness TherapySolution-Focused Therapy

Experience

30+ years

Licensed

Florida

Languages

English

What Cathy can help with

Cathy Heaps-Stetson works with clients on stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and coping with life changes.

How Cathy approaches therapy

Cathy's clinical approaches include Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Mindfulness Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy.

Experience and training

Cathy is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor practicing in Florida, with 30 years of clinical experience.