- Years in practice
- 18
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Parenting issues
About Catherine
Catherine Geniti is a New York licensed mental health counselor with 18 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage family conflict, work through trauma and abuse, and handle parenting and anger-related concerns. She approaches clients with respect and the belief that each person knows their own story best.
Her style is practical and supportive. Sessions aim to identify strengths and build on them so everyday problems feel more manageable.
Background and approach
She encourages small, steady steps that fit into a busy life and recognizes that change takes courage. Catherine often supports people navigating adoption and foster care issues, blended family stress, caregiver burden, and the fallout from divorce or separation. She also addresses feelings of guilt, shame, and challenges with self-esteem and self-love.
Her work emphasizes collaboration. She listens for patterns that keep problems alive and helps create straightforward strategies to shift them. That may include communication skills, emotion regulation tools, and ways to rebuild trust in relationships.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She uses these formats to fit therapy into real life, whether someone needs a longer conversation or a quick check-in. To begin, a person completes a brief matching questionnaire and schedules according to availability.
What Catherine works with
Everything Catherine lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Catherine helps people with.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Self-love
Approaches that guide online work and practical benefits
Catherine uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and real-life changes. One common approach centers on building emotion regulation and anger management skills through short exercises and practice that reduce reactivity and improve daily interactions. This helps when feelings escalate around parenting or family conflict.Another focus is trauma-informed care that acknowledges past wounds and slowly builds safety and tolerance for difficult memories. Work here often includes pacing sessions to avoid overwhelm, teaching grounding tools, and strengthening coping strategies so reactions feel less intense.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust them as progress unfolds.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good lower-bandwidth option, and messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing prompts between longer meetings. These options offer flexibility for longer work or quick support when needed.
Questions people ask about Catherine
What concerns does Catherine commonly address?
She works with people facing family problems, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, anger, and self-esteem issues. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, blended family concerns, caregiver stress, divorce and separation, forgiveness, guilt, and building self-love.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is practical and collaborative. She listens, highlights strengths, and helps create manageable steps to change patterns that cause distress.
What is her professional background?
She is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with 18 years of experience working in clinical settings and helping people with family and trauma-related concerns.
Where does she practice and what credential does she hold?
She holds a New York LMHC credential and practices from New York.
Which languages are offered for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted; she works with clients located within the supported region.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different needs and schedules.
How does payment and getting started work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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