Catherine Foley

Thank you for considering me as part of your community of care. I am eager to collaborate with you with compassion and presence as we consider the complexities you are navigating, while we get curious about ways to build nourishment, healing, and regeneration in your life. Affirming your sense of agency and identity, and your capacity to thrive is paramount to my approach. I am a couple, family, and sex therapist offering virtual psychotherapy for New York-based folks. I specialize in working with queer & trans individuals, couples, and families. Other areas of expertise include neurodivergence, relationship diversity and sex therapy, life transitions and adjustment, perinatal support, and grief and loss.

My therapeutic philosophy is liberatory and intersectional, and my approach is integrative, somatic, and holistic. From a foundation of systemic therapy, I also rely on emotionally focused therapy, narrative therapy, parts work, and mindfulness. In all of my work, I am informed by anti-racist, anti-ableist, abolitionist, & decolonial frameworks. My practice is person-centered, strengths-based, trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, and guided by principles of both accountability and radical acceptance.

I strive to cultivate meaningful therapeutic relationships that build safety and foster the courage to change. We will explore together slowly, cultivate emotional and somatic awareness, and honor your whole experience. I draw from postmodern, queer and feminist perspectives to tailor treatment to you with special consideration of your intersecting identities and social locations. I often blend models and interventions to offer you an authentic and grounded therapy experience. If you are interested, I love to incorporate journaling, ritual, visualization, dreamwork, and connection to plants, animals and the natural world. I am LGBTQ+ inclusive, sex and body positive, and I affirm gender, sexual, and relationship diversity (GSRD).