Catherine Geniti

Catherine Geniti is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in New York with 18 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people navigate family conflict, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, anger, and self-esteem struggles. Catherine emphasizes the client’s own strengths and sees the person as the expert on their life. She presents a calm, supportive presence for people ready to take a first step toward change.

Her work often looks at how past hurts and current stressors affect daily life and relationships. She helps people untangle patterns that increase anger or lower self-worth. Sessions can include practical strategies for managing strong emotions and rebuilding confidence.

Catherine also addresses adoption and foster care concerns, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and the emotions that come with divorce and separation. She helps people work through guilt, shame, and forgiveness while supporting self-love and healing. Her approach aims to make challenges more manageable and realistic steps clearer.

Across sessions she centers the person’s goals and life context. She invites people to identify what matters most and to try small, useful changes between meetings. Her style is direct but compassionate, focused on what will help most in everyday life.

Clients who prefer a steady, experience-based counselor may find her practical support helpful. She asks questions, listens closely, and offers ways to cope that fit each person’s routine and values.

Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life

Evidence-based techniques often focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building new skills. One practical approach is structured problem-solving, which breaks big issues into manageable steps and helps with parenting, anger, and daily family stress. Another common method emphasizes processing and making sense of past trauma and abuse so it has less hold on current relationships and self-worth.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about your goals, listen to how you describe challenges, and try options that match your needs. Together you decide which techniques to keep using and which to adjust based on how helpful they feel.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the exact session formats before booking since they are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people use a quieter setting or a flexible slot during a work break. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to digital appointments so progress continues between meetings.