ABOUT CATE

I know how difficult it is to pick up the phone and ask for help.
I know that finding a therapist who fits your style and values can be challenging. 
My goal is to provide a safe context within which clients can develop insight and skills to heal. 
For every couple that walks into my office, I see three clients: the husband, the wife and the marriage. 
As a child-centered family therapist, I assume that parents/caregivers are the best resource for child healing. 
With every individual client, I see their relational story as vital to our work.  
All of my therapy is relational. 
I am gay affirmative and honor LGBTQ identity while addressing challenged family dynamics. 
I have advanced training in EMDR and Discernment Counseling, along with specialties in sexuality, codependence,
​dynamics associated with depression, anxiety, trauma, and ADHD.  

FAMILY, INDIVIDUAL AND
​COUPLE THERAPY

We are inter-connected human beings who do not live or grow in isolation.  All of my therapy, teaching, and supervision focuses on individual health within a relational/familial context.  I have provided couple, adult and child-centered therapy for over 25 years, and I am committed to individual and relational health and wellness. 
​In my marital therapy, I am practical and skills-based in my initial therapy stratgies as I play an active role in helping couples stop the damage and begin to constructively solve conflicts and grow in compassion and understanding for one another. When the ground work is laid, therapy usually shifts to building intimacy including its emotional, social, familial, sexual and spiritual components which facilitate individual as well as relational healing.

SUPERVISION

 
​Cate has been teaching and supervising students in Bethel University's Marriage and Family Therapy Program for 20 years. Cate has extensive experience in couple as well as child and family therapy including in home-based settings (1996-1999) and in home and school-based programs with EBD children (Washburn Child Guidance Center, 1999-2004.) Cate is currently in private practice and specializes in individual and marital therapy, sexual issues, trauma and children's issues. .

CARING FOR KIDS
IN COVID TIMES

Children and families are beginning to experience what is likely to become increasingly stressful life events in our new world. Together, we can develop some parent-child strategies to attend to emotional regulation with a focus on love and connection to help mitigate hurtful consequences of this pandemic in our next most precious generation. 

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Cate Lally
821 Raymond Avenue, Suite 220
St. Paul, MN 55114
651-271-1713
[email protected]
Appointments M-F, daytime hours

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