Cathy Roberts

Cathy Roberts approaches therapy with a dual lens: she pays close attention to who a person is right now — their thoughts, feelings, and core beliefs — while also exploring the family history and early experiences that quietly shaped them. A Licensed Clinical Social Worker based in Montclair, New Jersey, she works from the understanding that the patterns formed in childhood have a long reach, influencing the choices and relationships people navigate as adults. That reach can show up in unexpected places, like the 3 a.m. spiral of worry that a phone makes easier to fall into.

Her practice spans individual counseling, couples and family work, and crisis intervention, with specialized experience in addiction, codependency, and trauma recovery. She works with teenagers, adults, and older adults facing depression, anxiety, abuse, grief, relationship conflict, and the particular strains that divorce or family rupture can bring. Online sessions are available.

What sets her work apart is a consistent insistence on building from strength, not only from struggle. Cathy looks for what is already working in a person’s life — including their spiritual or religious grounding, when that matters to them — and treats it as a real resource. Therapy, in her view, is a collaboration, and the client’s own resilience is always part of the work.