- Adoption-informed care
- Creative problem solving
- Strengths focused
About Cathrine
Cathrine Troy is an LPCC with 35 years of experience who brings life experience, intuition, and empathy to sessions. She blends ongoing learning with personal insight to help people facing hard transitions, addictions, relationship struggles, and adoption-related concerns. Cathrine frames therapy as a practical partnership and listens first to understand what matters most to each person.
She uses creative ideas and a range of tools gathered over a long career, including perspectives from art therapy and coaching alongside counseling. This variety helps when change feels stuck or when patterns repeat. Cathrine encourages clients to try small steps that may lead to bigger shifts in day-to-day life.
People reach out for help with grief, stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, parenting challenges, and coping with life changes. She also works with concerns such as trauma, substance use, ADHD, eating issues, intimacy, and multicultural or immigration-related stressors. Adoption and foster care matters are listed among her additional focus areas and she draws on personal experience as an adoptive parent when relevant.
Sessions focus on practical problem solving and on recognizing strengths clients already have. Cathrine aims to make plans feel realistic and achievable instead of overwhelming. She meets people where they are and moves at a pace that fits each person’s readiness.
Clients who want to begin can expect straightforward conversation about goals, next steps, and options for working together. Her approach centers on collaboration, respect, and steady progress over time.
How therapeutic approaches guide online work
Many of her methods translate into clear, practical steps clients can try between meetings. For example, art-informed approaches bring visual and creative exercises into counseling to help express feelings that are hard to name; these activities can reveal new ways to cope with grief, trauma, or stress. Coaching-influenced work focuses on goal setting and action plans, breaking larger aims into small, doable tasks that build momentum over time.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick strategies that match their goals, values, and comfort level. That means trying things, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than insisting on a single method.
If you are considering online sessions, confirm the available session formats before booking. Online work can make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy lives by reducing travel time and offering more flexibility for appointments. It can also allow shorter check-ins when time is tight, or sessions that do more planning and homework between meetings. Talk with the therapist during the intake to learn how remote sessions would be organized and which approaches will be used in that setting.
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Experience
35+ years
Credentials
New Mexico
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does Cathrine help with?
She works with a broad range of issues including addiction, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, stress, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapeutic approach and style?
Her style is collaborative and practical, combining counseling with creative tools and coaching ideas to help clients make concrete changes.
How much experience does she have?
Cathrine has been practicing for 35 years and brings long-term clinical experience alongside personal experience as an adoptive parent.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is an LPCC - Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor - practicing in New Mexico.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Session formats are not specified here; please confirm current session options before booking so you know what formats are supported.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with Cathrine?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.