About Cathi
Cathi Brisart is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people coping with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. She supports those facing relationship and family strain, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, career concerns, bipolar mood issues, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are offered in English and she practices from Connecticut.
Cathi takes a direct and practical approach. She listens first to understand what feels most difficult.
Background and approach
Then she helps people set small, achievable steps to feel steadier. Cathi uses clear tools and talks through ways to manage mood, reduce overwhelm, and improve day-to-day functioning. Her work draws on client-centered methods that keep the person’s own goals central.
She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thinking patterns. Dialectical behavior strategies and mindfulness exercises are added when people need skills for emotion regulation and stress tolerance. Cathi has twelve years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker.
The CT license number is CT LCSW 010040. She trained in Connecticut and has a background in supporting adults through loss, adjustment, and trauma-related concerns. In sessions she focuses on concrete strategies you can try between meetings.
Conversations tend to be straightforward and collaborative. The aim is to build coping skills, strengthen communication, and reduce the impact of painful emotions. People who choose Cathi can expect a steady, goal-focused pace and practical tools to use in daily life.
The work is collaborative and focused on what the client wants to change next.
Approaches that guide online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and experiences. The therapist listens closely, follows the client’s lead, and helps shape goals that feel meaningful. This approach is useful when someone needs support finding direction or rebuilding confidence.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions. Sessions teach ways to notice unhelpful thinking, try small behavior changes, and test new beliefs. This method often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress-related patterns.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It includes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication strategies for people who feel easily overwhelmed.
Choosing an approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they try methods and adjust as needed so the plan fits the person’s life.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation when a visual connection helps. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and texting can make it easier to share short updates, try skill prompts between sessions, and stay connected without full appointments. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy part of a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English