Catalina Kay is a licensed professional counselor clinician (LPCC) in Minnesota with 29 years of experience.
01About Catalina
Catalina Kay is a licensed professional counselor clinician (LPCC) in Minnesota with 29 years of experience. She focuses on practical, problem-solving work and helps people facing addiction, depression, relationship strain, and life transitions. Her approach is straightforward and goal-focused so parents can quickly see what therapy will address.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Sessions aim to identify unhelpful patterns and build small, doable changes.
Background and approach
That often means practicing new skills between meetings and tracking progress in simple ways. Catalina also supports people dealing with trauma, intimacy concerns, and issues around self-esteem. She brings decades of experience with sleeping and eating concerns, bipolar mood patterns, anger, and career stress.
Hospice and end-of-life counseling are additional areas she has worked in, helping people manage difficult transitions. Her style is collaborative and practical. She listens, offers clear options, and helps set short-term goals you can try right away.
Many sessions include concrete strategies for coping, mood regulation, and improving communication. Therapy with Catalina is intended to be steady and paced to each person. Conversations are plainspoken and focused on what’s helpful now.
If a parent is worried about a specific problem, she aims to make the steps forward feel manageable and realistic.
02Credentials
- LPCC (Minnesota)
- License 2843 · expires April 2026
- NPI
- 1316148356 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Catalina lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
Methods Catalina names
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04Online support
CBT and practical approaches for online therapy
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new responses. It focuses on small behavioral experiments and skill practice to reduce symptoms like low mood, anxiety, and problematic behaviors related to addiction or sleep.Because Catalina centers work on clear goals and tasks, CBT fits well with online formats. The approach breaks problems into manageable steps and uses homework between sessions to track progress, which translates easily to video or text check-ins.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust them over time in a collaborative way.
Online sessions can make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people connect face to face when a longer conversation is needed. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and are useful for check-ins or shorter meetings. Live chat and text-based messaging allow on-the-go check-ins and quick strategy reminders between scheduled sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does Catalina commonly address?
She works with addictions, relationship issues, depression, self-esteem, trauma and abuse, and related concerns such as eating and sleeping problems and anger.
What is her therapy style like?
Her sessions are practical and collaborative, using clear goals and steps that people can try between meetings.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 29 years of professional experience to her work, including hospice and end-of-life counseling.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds the credential LPCC and practices in Minnesota.
Which languages are supported during sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available online?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to meet.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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