Where Your Complexity Becomes Your Compass

I offer therapy to adolescents and adults who feel like outsiders in a world that prizes conformity — artists, seekers, and nonconformists creating their own path. Together, we’ll explore identity, creativity, and complexity, building resilience and a deeper sense of belonging.

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Concerns I Help With

Therapy can be a grounding space to explore challenges, process transitions, and reconnect with yourself. I work with clients around a wide range of concerns, including:

  • Life Transitions
    Navigating career shifts, relationship changes, family dynamics, or moves between high school, university, and graduate school. Exploring identity shifts, aging, and midlife changes.

  • Emotional Wellbeing
    Working through anxiety, depression, panic, obsessive thoughts, or the weight of chronic stress and burnout. Addressing low self-esteem, shame, and difficulties with boundaries or self-worth.

  • Creative Challenges
    Supporting artists, visionaries, and nonconformists navigating creative blocks, perfectionism, isolation, or self-doubt.

  • Neurodivergence
    Supporting clients with ADHD, autism, AuDHD, learning differences, sensory sensitivities, and executive functioning challenges. Together we can explore identity, unlearn shame from masking or “not fitting in,” and build systems that actually work for your nervous system.

  • Trauma & Relationships
    Healing from sexism, misogyny, intimate partner emotional abuse, or boundary violations. Exploring family of origin wounds, unresolved childhood experiences, and relationship struggles.

  • Women’s Mental Health
    Including but not limited to: PMDD, perinatal and postpartum mood disorders, infertility-related distress, pregnancy loss or abortion support, and perimenopause/menopause-related challenges.

  • Other Concerns
    Body image concerns and disordered eating. Addiction and problematic coping (substances, technology, or compulsive behaviors). Sleep difficulties or mind-body distress. Questions of identity, belonging, life purpose, and meaning.

In-Office and

Virtual Sessions

I offer in-person sessions at my beautiful, sunlit office in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as well as virtual therapy through secure, HIPAA-compliant video software—providing flexibility and convenience for your busy life. Whether you prefer the grounding presence of in-person work or the accessibility of meeting from home, therapy is available in the way that works best for you.

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My Ethos

In our work together, nothing about you is “too much” or “too strange.” Instead, your complexity becomes fuel: we’ll unravel the stories that confine you, explore new ways of moving through the world, and turn your difference into a source of power, vision, and belonging. As a licensed clinical psychologist with doctoral and postdoctoral training, I ground this process in evidence-based approaches while also leaving room for creativity, imagination, and embodied exploration. Therapy with me is both rigorous and expansive — a space where clinical depth meets openness to the unconventional, and where your full self is not only accepted, but honored.

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Client Testimonials

  • Matthew H.

    Dr. Berasi changed my life forever. Working with her for just over a year I was able to see myself in a whole new light. I put down a bunch of baggage, self defense mechanisms, and emotional armor that I'd been carrying around for years and that wasn't serving me anymore. I picked up a whole new set of tools, language, and ways of thinking that are sure to serve me well for the rest of my life. The only reason I stopped seeing her is because I moved states, and if I ever move back into the neighborhood I'll try to get back on her calendar as quickly as possible. Cannot recommend highly enough. A+ LCP, 6/5 stars.

  • Jessica K.

    Dr. Berasi is professional, warm and a wonderful collaborator. She cares for her clients and is skilled in individualized and gender affirming care. Highly recommend this practice.

  • Zhenzhen Q.

    Dr. Kateri helped me with a new way to see myself. I learned to create space to honor my own feelings, and communicate them to others in a way that's honest and mindful. I was able to acknowledge that I feel hurt, while others have no intention of hurting me. I am on a new journey that Dr. Kateri helped me start.

  • Gael J.

    I highly recommend Kateri to anyone looking for a new therapist. Kateri is warm, grounded, compassionate, and affirming. She is approachable and an attentive listener. I felt connected to her immediately and wouldn't hesitate to work with her again.

  • Ridika P.

    I had Dr Berasi for about a year and she helped me a lot. She made me feel heard and understood. I was able to understand myself better and look the world in a positive way. I love her and will definitely come back for sure.

  • Martin N.

    Kateri is an amazing therapist. I had never tried therapy before and was at total ease within 15 minutes of our first session. She was both an exceptional listener and also guided me to discover a lot about myself. Our sessions honestly changed my life. I cannot recommend her enough.

  • Zoe G.

    Kateri helped me through a rough year with attentive listening and constructive feedback. Through multiple sessions her understanding of my inner fears and strengths helped me to glimpse a side of myself that had been long buried. She is a gracious, lovely soul who quickly makes you feel comfortable, and she treats delicate topics with significant care and thought. I would highly recommend her to anyone who is looking to wrestle some inner demons in depth.

  • Anabella B.

    I had the pleasure of having Kateri as a therapist. Kateri compassionately held space for a deep metamorphoses I went through in my late 20s. Her presence in the therapeutic space was an authentic light empowering my healing process and transformation. I am grateful to life to have found such a great therapist. The warmth, the insightful observations, and the quality of human she is. I deeply recommend her!

  • Buffy C.

    Dr. Kateri is a kind, skilled & open therapist. We really enjoyed working with her as a couple. She helped us become closer & communicate better during an incredibly stressful period of change & challenges. We couldn’t have asked for a better guide in our growth individually & mutually.

  • Alicia L.

    Kateri is an extraordinary therapist. I saw her for almost 4 years, and it was truly a transformative experience. I came to her stuck and in desperate need of some insight. She provided a safe and caring space for me to explore not only my currently life situations but helped me to understand my past life experiences and how that informs my present. Kateri is a kind, genuine, and deep listener who truly works to understand her clients. I was very nervous to start therapy in the beginning, but her open and generous nature put my nerves at ease and helped me to feel safe to access feelings and understanding I would have not been able to find on my own. I can safely say my life has been completely changed for the better and the tools I learned from our work together, I will keep with me forever. If you’re looking to do some deep self-work in a safe and loving environment, Kateri is definitely the therapist for you!

  • Rae G.

    My partner & I loved working with Dr. Berasi. She truly created a space of safety & comfort for us, while still providing critique & structure where needed. She guided us through difficult emotional work with grace, tact, & invaluable insight. I have seen many therapists, and consider it one of the most important skills to be able to meet your clients exactly where they need you in terms of conversation, support, and even humor - Dr. Berasi is outstanding at this. Only stopped seeing her because we moved across the country, and we will miss working with her greatly.

  • Cassandra L.

    My experience with Dr. Kateri has been incredible and transformative. I have seen multiple therapists throughout the years, which were only addressing surface level problems. Dr. Kateri is kind and compassionate. I got a deeper understanding of myself and my needs. And ultimately understand the root of my anxiety. Because of her help I feel empowered and I no longer feel broken.

  • Noel H.

    Dr. Berasi is a dedicated, highly gifted therapist who is passionate about providing a welcoming and affirming space for her clients. She brings her artistry, transparency, and honesty into her work, as well as her extensive training and knowledge regarding marginalization and oppression, intense emotions, and relationship difficulties. If you want a non-judgmental free-thinking therapist, you can't go wrong with Dr. Berasi!

  • Sherina P.

    I have had the pleasure of working with Dr. Berasi in a professional capacity and have found her to be an incredibly skilled psychologist. She is always eager to keep up with the latest theory and research, and she applies it with skill and compassion. She puts great care into tailoring treatment to the needs of each individual or couple coming into the practice.

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