Catherine Heil, LCSW

Catherine Heil, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of experience providing therapeutic services across inpatient psychiatric hospitalizations, outpatient mental health care, and correctional institutions. She holds a Bachelor of Social Work from Southeast Missouri State University and a Master of Social Work from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and obtained her clinical license in 2011. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), she is trained to provide clinical assessment and evidence-informed therapy for a range of concerns.

Her clinical work focuses on helping people affected by depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and relationship challenges. She uses practical, hands-on strategies drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing to address patterns of thinking and behavior, build coping skills, and set achievable goals. Catherine describes her therapeutic stance as warm, empathetic, goal oriented, and client centered, emphasizing collaboration and real-world tools to manage life stressors.

In sessions she helps clients identify unhelpful thought patterns, practice alternative responses, and develop new ways of coping that fit their daily life. Catherine also brings experience supporting people through grief, addiction, parenting struggles, intimacy concerns, and major life transitions. She acknowledges how difficult reaching out for help can be and commends those who take that first step toward emotional well being, offering steady clinical support as clients work toward meaningful change.