Dr. Catherine Alvarez, Ph.D., LMHC
Florida · 17 years in practice
Dr. D. is a licensed mental health counselor who centers therapy on meaning, choice, and personal values.
License and registration
- LMHC, Florida
- MH23606 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1154915486 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 17
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Catherine
Dr. Catherine Alvarez, Ph.D. is a licensed mental health counselor who centers therapy on meaning, choice, and personal values. She brings 17 years of experience to work that helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and grief.
Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping people take practical steps when life feels overwhelming. She uses existential ideas to help people name what matters to them and face difficult decisions.
Background and approach
That perspective is blended with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based work when useful. Sessions often focus on clarifying values, building coping skills, and improving how people relate to themselves and others.
Her background includes long-term clinical experience in Florida and work with a wide range of concerns such as trauma and abuse, relationship or intimacy issues, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, and career stress. She also addresses ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, chronic illness issues, and caregiving stress. In sessions, she aims for clear, realistic goals.
Conversations may include tracking patterns, practicing new responses, and experimenting with small changes between meetings. She supports people through life transitions, abandonment wounds, body image struggles, and communication breakdowns. People can expect a collaborative approach that balances emotional reflection with practical tools.
Dr. Alvarez works with each person to create steps that fit their life and values.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Catherine lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Catherine names
- Existential Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Existential Therapy invites people to look at what gives their life meaning and to make choices that align with those values. It can help when someone feels stuck, questions purpose, or faces major life decisions.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings while taking actions that matter. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with chronic stress by building flexible habits and values-driven goals.
Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape current reactions. It often helps when communication, intimacy, or trust feel difficult.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences and may blend approaches over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging makes regular contact possible between meetings. These options make it easier to maintain momentum and adapt care to changing schedules.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, and related concerns.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach blends existential ideas with practical techniques. Sessions balance reflecting on meaning with step-by-step skills to manage emotions and behavior.
How much experience does she have?
She has 17 years of clinical experience working with a broad range of mental health and life concerns in Florida.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is a Florida licensed mental health counselor, listed as FL LMHC, and practices from Florida.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English, and she also accepts international clients.
What session formats does she offer?
She offers therapy via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different scheduling needs.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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