Catherine Ladd , LCSW

Catherine Ladd is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in North Carolina with a decade of experience in hospice care and private practice. She focuses on grief and loss, including anticipatory grief, and supports people navigating anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship concerns, and stress management. Her background in hospice work informs a calm, compassionate perspective on end-of-life issues and caregiver stress.

Her therapeutic style is relaxed and open, built around empathy and mutual respect. She draws on evidence-based methods including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy, selecting the approach that best aligns with each personâs goals and situation. Sessions are tailored to address concrete problems like communication difficulties, commitment and attachment concerns, career stress, and the emotional impacts of aging, illness, or bereavement.

Reaching out for support is framed as a courageous step toward greater well-being, and she partners with clients to define achievable goals and practical coping strategies. Catherine offers a collaborative, person-centered process intended to help clients move through life transitions and regain a sense of balance and direction.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Catherine Ladd uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop practical skills for managing anxiety, stress, and mood. This approach focuses on the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and works well for problems that benefit from structured skill-building.

She also draws on Motivational Interviewing, a collaborative, conversational method designed to strengthen a personâs own motivation for change. This approach can be especially useful for addressing ambivalence around life changes, career transitions, or health-related decisions.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process, and she works with clients to determine what methods align with their needs, goals, and preferences. The therapist-client relationship is framed as a partnership in which treatment plans are adjusted as progress and priorities evolve.

Offering sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life circumstances. These options provide flexibility and accessibility, allowing licensed professionals and therapists to support clients where and when itâs most helpful.