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.
I don't take every insurance. I can't see unlimited patients. I chose those trade-offs because I refuse to give you 15 minutes and call it care.
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+ →My previous therapist was great but I had to see a separate person for medication, a coach for the divorce stuff, and a support group across town. Four appointments, four providers, four co-pays. Now it's just Cathy.
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.
It took me three years to realize my own depression wasn't being treated properly. I was a nurse. If I couldn't navigate the system, what chance does everyone else have?
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: "The 5 Questions Your Doctor Hopes You Won't Ask (But You Should)"
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.