Resident Therapist Profile

• Catherine McMonigle MS, Resident in Marriage and Family Therapy

Catherine McMonigle is a resident in Marriage and Family Therapy. She is an Associate Member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. Catherine received her M.S. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Virginia Tech University. She provides therapy to individuals, couples, families, and adolescents who are experiencing problems related to anxiety, depression, trauma, life adjustment, parenting, family conflict, and marital/relationship distress.

Counseling Experience

Catherine has experience counseling individuals, children, adolescents, couples, and families in outpatient mental health settings, in which she implements a variety of systemic and expressive techniques. In her graduate training, Catherine gained experience working with couples on issues of domestic violence, alcoholism, childhood trauma, and infidelity. She has provided intensive outpatient individual, family, and group therapy to adolescents and their families struggling with significant levels of anxiety, depression, school avoidance, substance abuse, self-injury, and family conflict. Catherine also has worked in treatment foster care agencies, with children and adolescents who have experienced physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, where she has conducted family therapy with the adolescents and their biological parents. She has facilitated parenting education groups for parents of children, ages 3-13, and support groups for individuals suffering from the effects of poverty and civil war in El Salvador.

Education

1. Virginia Tech State University, Falls Church, VA - Master of Science, Marriage and Family Therapy.
2. Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA - Bachelor of Science, Major, Psychology; Minor, Spanish.

Research

1. Parents' and children's experiences of family play therapy. (Masters thesis)

Publications

1. Stith, S. M. & McMonigle, C. (in press). Risk markers for intimate partner violence. In D. Whitaker & J. Lutzker (Eds.), Preventing Partner Violence: Foundations, Interventions, Issues, American Psychological Association.

Conference Presentation

1. McMonigle, C. L., Stith, S. M., & Linkh, D. (October 2007). Challenges and implications of treatment efficacy research. Poster presentation at the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Annual Conference in Long Beach, CA.