Catherine (Cate) Beaton, LCMHC

Catherine (Cate) Beaton is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 15 years of experience based in Vermont. She works with people who struggle with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, anger, depression, and related life changes. Cate also supports clients facing career pressures, parenting strain, addiction concerns, and mood challenges.

Cate began her career as a paramedic in Hartford, Connecticut, which shaped how she understands acute stress and trauma. She later earned a Master’s degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University and completed an Educational Specialist degree in School Psychology. Over the years she has taken many continuing education courses focused on trauma and behavior.

She has served as a clinical and executive director, which brought supervision and staff support into her core work. That leadership role deepened her interest in how relationships affect wellbeing and strengthened her teaching and coaching skills. Cate has about ten years of clinical supervision experience mentoring coworkers and supervisees.

In sessions she draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Existential Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. She uses these methods to help people notice unhelpful patterns, reduce reactivity, and make choices that align with their values.

Her practical focus includes addressing attachment issues, caregiver stress, codependency, dissociation, and postpartum or first responder concerns. People who want straightforward support for managing anger, resolving relationship strain, or coping with life transitions will find her approach direct and relational.

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