Cate (she/they) is a queer therapist offering a welcoming place for sincere, thoughtful experiential healing. She works in partnership with teens and adults toward greater harmony in body, voice, and lived experience. Together, they cultivate the kind of rootedness that builds a deeper capacity to be with the discordant days. Safety and connection are the grounds of her trauma-informed care. She integrates Somatic, Narrative, Polyvagal, and IFS therapies to meet what lives in the psyche, the story, and the nervous system.

 
Her work tends to the profound imprints left by intergenerationally inherited survival strategies, historical traumas, and colonialism's influence on our bodies, brains, and psyches. She supports the expansion of clarity, confidence, and inner protection, creating room for healing, rest, and play with mindful intention.

It is often in the presence of an empathetic witness that we find our way back home to ourselves. The therapeutic relationship is the heart of her practice: being tended carefully, held with honesty, and returned to again and again. Rooted in the wisdom of community care, she honors the fundamental human need to belong and feel alive in our communities and within ourselves. She is a part of a collective of healers at Echo Community Practice fighting for collective, liberatory, anti-oppressive healing.

Cate received her B.A. in Psychology from California State University, Fullerton and her M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University. She started as a therapist trainee at COLORS Youth, a pro-bono clinic serving LGBTQIA+ adolescents. Currently, she practices as an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT #152125) supervised by Dr. Anna Morgan-Mullane (LCSW #128603).