Catherine Geniti
Family-focused counselor for practical change
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Catherine
Catherine Geniti is a licensed mental health counselor with 18 years of practice based in New York. She focuses on family concerns, parenting struggles, trauma and abuse, anger, and self-esteem. Catherine emphasizes practical, straightforward support and treats each person as the expert on their own life.
She aims to help parents and caregivers find clearer ways to manage hard moments and repair relationships. She listens for patterns that get in the way of everyday family functioning.
Background and approach
Then she helps people identify small, concrete steps that can ease tension at home. Sessions are conversational and practical, with attention to emotions and real-world parenting demands. Catherine has worked with issues related to adoption and foster care, blended family tensions, caregiver stress, divorce and separation, and other family problems.
She also addresses forgiveness, guilt and shame, and building self-love. Her long experience includes supporting people through trauma recovery and anger management. Her style is collaborative.
She checks in about goals and adjusts strategies as families try new ways of relating. Progress often comes from repeated small changes rather than a single session. When someone is ready to begin, she supports them through the early steps and helps set practical expectations for therapy.
Sessions can include talking through parenting choices, practicing new interactions, and building skills to reduce conflict and increase connection.
Evidence-based approaches for online family support
Two common evidence-based techniques used are trauma-informed care and skills-based problem solving. Trauma-informed care focuses on understanding how past harms affect current feelings and reactions; it helps people feel safer and begin to process painful memories. Skills-based problem solving teaches concrete steps for handling conflict, managing anger, and making parenting choices, with simple tools to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, daily routines, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to check in between appointments. The variety of formats also helps people choose the style of contact that feels most comfortable while working on family and parenting issues.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
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- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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