Catherine Surovy, LPC, LCPC

Catherine Surovy is a licensed professional counselor with LPC and LCPC credentials. She brings 13 years of clinical experience and focuses on practical strategies to reduce overwhelming stress and anxiety. Parents reading this can expect clear, direct guidance and a calm presence in sessions.

Catherine favors approaches that look at thoughts, behaviors, and relationships. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try new responses. She also integrates acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and take small steps toward them.

Her background includes work in residential and outpatient settings with youth who have complex trauma histories and with families involved in systems like child welfare and probation. That experience shaped a practical focus on safety, coping skills, and everyday routines that support change. Catherine also works with people facing addiction, grief, anger, low self-esteem, and life transitions.

Sessions often include teaching skills, practicing them in the moment, and planning how to use those skills between meetings. She partners with caregivers to explain techniques and improve household communication and responses to challenging behavior. Catherine limits work to clients in Montana and conducts sessions in English.

The goal in her work is straightforward: help people feel steadier day to day, strengthen relationships, and identify manageable steps toward the life they want. She uses short-term tools alongside longer-term planning so progress stays practical and realistic.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and practice different behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, emphasizes clarifying personal values and taking small steps toward them while accepting difficult emotions. It can be useful for coping with grief, life changes, and low self-esteem. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and how early connections influence current interactions; it can help improve communication and repair trust in close relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Catherine will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, and then tailor methods together. The process is collaborative and can shift over time as needs change.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can fit shorter check-ins or work around limited bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, homework check-ins, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and help maintain continuity between meetings.