Works with
- Anger
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
How Catherine works
- Not listed
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- New York
- Years in practice
- 18
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Catherine
Catherine Geniti is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with 18 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for people dealing with family stress, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, anger, and low self-esteem. She meets people where they are and works with their goals in straightforward ways.
Catherine believes each person knows their story best. She looks for strengths clients can use to move past what holds them back.
Background and approach
The first steps often feel hard, and she aims to make them easier to take. In sessions she listens closely and helps clients develop simple skills for managing strong emotions like anger. She also helps people untangle family problems, figure out parenting concerns, and work through issues tied to adoption, foster care, blended families, divorce, or caregiving stress.
She supports people coping with shame, guilt, and questions about forgiveness and self-love. Work often includes short-term strategies for immediate relief and longer-term plans for building confidence and healthier patterns. Her style is practical and collaborative.
Catherine explains options, prioritizes what matters most to the client, and adjusts the approach as goals change. She encourages small steps that add up to meaningful change.
What Catherine works with
Everything Catherine lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Catherine's practice.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Catherine uses evidence-based techniques to help people manage intense emotions and repair family patterns. One common approach focuses on learning concrete emotion-regulation skills to reduce anger and reactivity. These are step-by-step tools people can practice between sessions to notice triggers, slow down responses, and choose different actions.Another approach centers on processing the effects of trauma and abuse in manageable ways. This work helps people make sense of difficult experiences, reduce their everyday impact, and build routines that support steadier moods and relationships.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Catherine listens to your goals, checks in about what feels useful, and adjusts methods over time. She works with clients to set small, reachable targets and celebrates progress along the way.
Online therapy can make this work more flexible. Video calls offer face-to-face interaction for teaching skills and talking through family issues. Phone sessions suit quick check-ins or when video is not practical. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter, more frequent contact for homework support or brief reflections between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and maintain consistent momentum toward their goals.
Questions people ask about Catherine
What concerns does she help with?
Catherine helps people with family conflict, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, anger, and self-esteem. She also works on adoption and foster care issues, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, divorce, forgiveness, guilt, and self-love.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her approach is practical and collaborative. She listens, identifies strengths, and teaches simple skills to manage strong emotions and problem solve family tensions.
What is her background and experience?
She has 18 years of professional experience working with people facing family and trauma-related concerns. That background informs both short-term coping strategies and longer-term work on self-esteem and relationships.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds a Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential (LMHC) and practices in New York.
Can I work with her in a language other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
In what session formats does she meet clients?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as session formats.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; services use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to start therapy?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.