Cathi Brisart

Cathi Brisart is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. She works with clients facing relationship and family concerns, trauma or abuse, parenting challenges, career pressures, and compassion fatigue. Cathi practices from Connecticut and brings twelve years of experience to her work.

In sessions she focuses on practical steps people can use each week. She listens for what matters most, then helps build new ways of coping. Cathi uses client-centered methods to follow each person's pace and priorities. She also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and on mindfulness practices to calm reactivity.

Cathi integrates techniques from dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally-focused therapy when clients need tools for emotion regulation or for improving close relationships. She aims to teach skills that fit into everyday life, like small behavior changes and brief exercises to try between meetings.

Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. Clients set goals, try strategies, and review what works. Cathi explains things in plain language and keeps sessions focused on usable steps rather than jargon.

She trained in Connecticut and has practiced since 2013. The first meeting is used to understand your situation and to plan next steps together. People often start by identifying one or two immediate concerns they want to change.

How Cathi’s approaches translate to online care