Cathi Brisart, LCSW

Cathi Brisart is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Connecticut with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem, relationship and family concerns, and coping with life changes. Her work also notes attention to trauma and abuse, parenting struggles, career difficulties, compassion fatigue, and codependency.

Cathi uses straightforward conversation to help people name what feels off and what they want to change. She draws on client-centered work to listen and understand a person's priorities. She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thinking and DBT strategies for managing intense emotions.

Sessions include practical skills practice and short-term problem solving alongside deeper emotional work. Cathi helps people notice patterns that sap energy, such as people-pleasing or staying in crisis-driven relationships. She offers ways to set clearer boundaries and to practice new responses in everyday life.

Her training includes graduate study at Southern Connecticut State University, where she completed honors-level work. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers. That clinical background informs how she combines listening with methods that change behavior.

Cathi works in a direct, readable style. Sessions tend to focus on what you want to do differently and on small steps to get there. People who feel stuck after loss, relationship upheaval, mood shifts, or ongoing stress may find this practical approach helpful.

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