Nobody told you it would feel like this.
You thought getting help would be simple. Instead you got 8-minute appointments, providers who type while you talk, and the nagging feeling that maybe you're just not explaining it right. You are. They're not listening. I will.
The system wasn't built for you. It was built for billing.
Here's what mental health care looks like for most people: You wait 6 weeks for an appointment. You fill out a 14-page intake. You get 15 minutes with someone who's already looking at the clock. They hand you a prescription. They say "let's check in next month." You walk out wondering if that was supposed to help.
It wasn't supposed to help you. It was supposed to help their schedule.
I left that system. I built this instead.
One practice. Everything you actually need.
Individual Therapy
Real conversations with someone who's been on your side of the couch. CBT, DBT, trauma-informed — but mostly: I listen like it matters. Because it does.
Learn more →Medication Management
I used to be the nurse watching doctors hand out prescriptions in 8 minutes. I spent a decade learning what they should have explained. Now I explain it.
Learn more →Life Coaching
Divorce. Parenting. Career implosion. The moments where you need strategy, not a diagnosis. I've navigated all of these. Let me show you what I learned the hard way.
Learn more → ★ Signature OfferingSupport Group Plus
Professionally guided group sessions for $5. Not a support group where nobody leads. Not therapy you can't afford. The thing that should have existed all along.
Join Support Group+ →Five dollars. Sixty minutes. Everything changes.
I kept seeing the same gap: support groups where people share pain but nobody in the room knows what to do with it. And therapy — where you get real expertise but you're alone, paying $150 an hour.
So I built the bridge.
I lead every session. Small groups. Specific topics. You get the warmth of people who understand AND the guidance of someone trained to help you move forward. For the price of a latte.
I didn't learn this from a textbook.
I learned it from my own prescription that nobody explained. From my divorce that happened while I was treating other people's depression. From watching patients leave confused, scared, and alone — knowing I could help them if the system would just give me more than 7 minutes.
So I took the 15 years of clinical experience — hospital nursing, crisis intervention, substance abuse counseling, psychiatric care — and built the practice I wished someone had offered me.
Read my full story →What changes look like
"Five therapists in five years. Cathy is the first one who made me feel like she wasn't watching the clock. I actually said the real thing for once. Because she made space for it."
— Therapy client, 34
"She explained my medication in a way that made me realize — nobody had ever actually told me what it does. Three years on sertraline and I finally understand why."
— Medication management client, 28
"I joined Support Group Plus because it was $5 and I was lonely. I stayed because it was the first time in years I felt like someone in the room actually knew how to help."
— SGP member, 41
Things nobody tells you
When Your Doctor Doesn't Listen
That moment you leave the office and realize you didn't say the real thing. Here's why — and what to do next time.
Read more →Your Anxiety Isn't a Personality Flaw
It's your nervous system doing exactly what it's designed to do. Badly timed, maybe. But not broken.
Read more →The $5 Revolution
How I built the thing that should have existed all along — and why it changed my practice more than anything else.
Read more →Free Guide: "5 Questions to Ask at Every Doctor's Appointment"
I wrote this because I've watched too many people leave a doctor's office confused, frustrated, or feeling unheard. These five questions change everything. They work for mental health appointments, primary care, specialists — any time you're sitting across from someone in a white coat.
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You don't have to figure this out alone.
If something in you recognized itself in these words — that's not coincidence. That's the part of you that knows you deserve better than what you've been getting.
Whenever you're ready: book a free consultation, join a $5 Support Group Plus session, or just read the blog. There's no wrong door.