Catharine McDonald (she/her)

MS, NCC, LPC, PMH-C
Accepting Clients

Hello! I'm glad you're here. I'm a perinatal therapist, wife, and mom of four kids, two dogs and so many chickens!

Licensed Professional Counselor in Tolland, CT

Services
  • Individual
  • Couples

About My Clients

We're a team of six perinatal therapists work exclusively with women & birthing people around family planning, fertility challenges, prenatal and postpartum anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and OCD, pregnancy loss, termination, birth trauma, and overall postpartum depletion, perinatal sex therapy, everything that is growing a family and being well. We take an integrative approach and often work with other providers to help clients feel better, faster. You deserve to feel well

My Background and Approach

We're all trained in perinatal mental health and each therapist has different sub-specialties- some of us are trained in infertility, perinatal bereavement & grief, sex therapy, birth trauma, OCD, supporting families around medical diagnoses, LGBTQIA+ affirming perinatal care, we are passionate about reproductive rights and reproductive justice and not afraid to show it- all folks are welcome here around all reproductive stressors and decisions.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

A quick note from CatharinE: As a mom myself, I'm also always trying to grow and be well, an active ongoing process, right?! I believe therapists are better when they're in their own therapy, thank goodness for my own therapist-she helps me be well for you! I believe women are set up with so many obstacles in our culture and we do some smashing of the patriarchy in our work. We don't have to talk politics but I don't vote for people who take away rights from others, engage in gaslighting, or abuse others- you catch my drift! I love to talk boundaries and self-care and try to practice what I preach- I live by my planner and try to live a fairly healthy/crunchy life, within reason, and I love love love coffee, lattes specifically. I can't wait to invite you in person to our office for coffee and therapy- it's such an important part of the process to sit, pause, and share a warm beverage (telehealth is ok too!).We hope to see you soon!

Insurance Plans Accepted
  • Aetna
  • Cigna
  • Medicaid
  • Optum
  • United Behavioral Health (UBH)
  • Oxford Health Plan
  • United Healthcare
  • ConnectiCare
  • HUSKY
  • Evernorth
I offer online counseling in the following states:

At A Glance

  • Experience: 9 years of practice
  • Languages: English
  • Rate: $200 - 220/session

Info

8608370204 Email Catharine
54 Hartford Tpke
Tolland, CT 06084
3074 WHITNEY AVE BLDG 2
STE 211
HAMDEN, CT 06518

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