About Catherine
Catherine Geniti is a licensed mental health counselor with 18 years of professional experience in New York. She focuses on practical help for people dealing with family stress, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, anger, and low self-esteem. Catherine emphasizes each person's strengths and treats the client as the expert on their own story.
She takes a straightforward approach in sessions. Catherine listens, helps identify patterns that cause pain, and works with clients to try small, manageable changes.
How Catherine works
She offers clear tools for handling difficult moments and improving day-to-day relationships. Catherine has helped people facing adoption and foster care concerns, blended family issues, caregiver stress, divorce and separation, and other family problems. She also supports work around forgiveness, guilt and shame, and building self-love.
Her background gives her experience with a wide range of family-related struggles. Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Catherine focuses on practical steps that can reduce anger, improve parenting decisions, and strengthen self-worth.
She encourages clients to use their existing strengths while trying new ways of coping. Her practice is focused on real-life solutions that fit busy schedules. Catherine helps people map out straightforward goals and checks progress in each meeting.
The goal is steady, useful change that people can notice between sessions.
What Catherine works with
The areas below are the ones Catherine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
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Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online family-focused work
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques here aim to give clear, usable ways to cope. One common approach focuses on understanding how past hurt affects current reactions; it helps people recognize triggers and practice different responses to reduce anger and reactivity. Another approach emphasizes skills for managing strong feelings and improving daily behavior, offering steps to calm down, communicate more clearly, and rebuild trust after conflict.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Catherine will work together with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaboration helps tailor interventions so they feel relevant and doable rather than overwhelming.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules. Video lets people work face to face when time and bandwidth allow. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when video is difficult. Live chat and text messaging provide shorter check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing family life and work.
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