Meet Catharine
I am originally a New York native and grew up in a small Jewish community right outside of Rochester, New York. I'm very down to earth and bring my authentic self into the therapy room.
I'm a queer therapist and am deeply committed to women and men’s mental health. I identify as an intersectional feminist and find particular joy and great meaning in working with depression, anxiety, and sexual trauma.
In my free time you can find me reading a good book in a coffee shop, watching an independent film or walking my two lovely dogs Farah and Stamos on the beach.
I'm a queer therapist and am deeply committed to women and men’s mental health. I identify as an intersectional feminist and find particular joy and great meaning in working with depression, anxiety, and sexual trauma.
In my free time you can find me reading a good book in a coffee shop, watching an independent film or walking my two lovely dogs Farah and Stamos on the beach.
My Work
I am a therapist who weaves together talk therapy with creative therapies. In my practice, I believe that with empathetic, supportive guidance anyone can overcome great obstacles and reach the goals they envision achieving. I work from an intuitive, somatic, and expressive framework to spur healing and change from within. I have been in the mental health field for 10 years.
I currently work at Havn Collective, a group therapy practice located in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California. In my work as a therapist, philosophically speaking I orient myself in a theoretical matrix devoted to social justice, feminist theory, queer theory, and Liberation Psychology. I am trained in EMDR, Expressive Art Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Narrative Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Play Therapy, Sand Play Therapy, and Psychoanalytic Therapy.
I currently work at Havn Collective, a group therapy practice located in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California. In my work as a therapist, philosophically speaking I orient myself in a theoretical matrix devoted to social justice, feminist theory, queer theory, and Liberation Psychology. I am trained in EMDR, Expressive Art Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Narrative Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Play Therapy, Sand Play Therapy, and Psychoanalytic Therapy.
EMDR
EMDR is a profound therapy modality that alleviates distress associated with unpleasant or traumatic memories. Traumatic memories are stored maladaptively in our brains and cause generalized or off set reactions, such as the belief "I'm always unsafe". EMDR helps those memories that are dysfunctionally stored to get processed in an adaptive way so the unwanted memories bear less emotional charge and are incorporated into the whole psyche.
