Cathi Brisart, LCSW

Cathi Brisart is a Connecticut LCSW with 12 years of clinical experience helping adults manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and family concerns. She works with people wrestling with relationship struggles, parenting strain, career questions, and changes that unsettle daily life. Her practice notes family of origin issues among the topics she addresses.

Cathi focuses on practical, talk-based work. Sessions look at how past family roles and patterns influence present behavior. She uses clear tools to strengthen coping skills and reduce overwhelm. Conversations aim to identify repeated dynamics and try new ways of handling them.

Her approach draws on client-centered principles, which put the person's perspective first, and on cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and change unhelpful thinking. She also uses elements from dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally-focused work to address intense emotions and relationship patterns. Mindfulness practices may be introduced to help with grounding and stress management.

She trained in Connecticut and holds a clinical social work license, CT LCSW. Cathi’s background includes work with people facing trauma and long-term mood imbalance as well as those coping with loss and illness. Her experience spans outpatient therapeutic settings.

People who come to her often bring issues like abandonment concerns, blended family challenges, body image struggles, codependency, communication problems, guilt, shame, or feelings of isolation. Sessions aim to clarify what patterns are no longer useful and to practice alternatives in everyday life.

How Cathi applies therapeutic approaches online