Cathi Brisart, LCSW

Cathi Brisart, LCSW, helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. She offers steady support for relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, career challenges, and the fallout from trauma or abuse. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth. She speaks plainly and aims to make next steps feel manageable.

Cathi has been practicing since 2013 and holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential. She trained in Connecticut and completed graduate work with honors. Her background includes work with people coping with bipolar mood challenges, compassion fatigue, and complex medical or life circumstances such as cancer and comorbidity.

In sessions she draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, mindfulness, and a client-centered stance. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thinking, try small behavior changes, build emotional awareness, and practice skills for distress tolerance and communication. The work is collaborative and paced to the person’s needs.

People often come for help with abandonment, blended family issues, body image, codependency, and communication problems. Cathi also supports those navigating divorce or separation, family of origin wounds, guilt, shame, isolation, and a sense of emptiness. She focuses on concrete tools alongside emotional processing.

Sessions are offered in English and provided from Connecticut. Cathi emphasizes clear goals and practical techniques that can be used between sessions. She aims to help people find steadier footing and better everyday coping.

How Cathi’s Approaches Work Online

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on noticing thought patterns and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful reactions. It helps people break down problems into manageable steps and practice new responses between sessions.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and support so people can explore what matters to them. That approach is useful when someone needs space to make sense of feelings about loss, identity, or relationship strain.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, brings concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. It is often chosen when intense emotions, impulsive responses, or relationship conflicts make everyday life harder.

Deciding which approach to use is a joint process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try methods that fit the person’s needs. Sessions are adjusted over time based on what is helping.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face interaction and skill coaching. Phone calls work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging suit quick updates, brief emotional support, or people who prefer written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep consistent contact with a licensed professional.