Catherine Claybrook

Catherine Claybrook is a licensed clinical social worker in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She works with adults seeking hope, enhanced well-being, healing and restored connection. Many of Catherine’s clients come in to address worry, self-doubt, fear, anxiety, and strained relationships. She is particularly passionate about helping men and women navigate a difficult season and create rich, satisfying lives. She has advanced, specialized training in the areas of anxiety, depression, addiction, adult attachment, and trauma.

Catherine is trained in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and other evidence-based methods for treating anxiety, depression, trauma and distressed relationships. In session, Catherine focuses on understanding where clients feel caught in painful, reactive patterns resulting from unmet needs and unspoken hurts. She works with clients to increase awareness of their internal struggle with thoughts and feelings as they also increase involvement in meaningful life activities. She helps clients examine the meaning beneath experiences, explore aspirations, cultivate joy and tap into strengths.

Engagement, compassion, and acceptance are foundational to Catherine's therapeutic style and beliefs about how people change. When clients first start therapy, she collaborates with them to establish goals and identify desired outcomes.

Catherine received her MSW from the University of Oklahoma. She has practiced in outpatient mental health settings as well as inpatient psychiatric facilities with individuals, families, and couples since 2004. Additionally, Catherine is a Board Approved Licensure Supervisor for the state of Oklahoma. Throughout her 19+ years as a clinician, supervisor, and mentor, she has had the privilege of doing work she is passionate about and has been appreciated for her dynamic leadership, compassionate approach, calm presence, and sense of humor. She is inspired by the resilience and strengths of those she serves.