I'm Cat Baker, MFT.
Most couples who find me have been having the same fight for years, or have stopped having it at all, and are starting to wonder whether that's just who they are now. It isn't. It's a pattern, and patterns can be changed.
I'm a Marriage & Family Therapist in Duxbury, seeing couples on the South Shore, in Boston, and online across Massachusetts. My work centers on three things: recurring conflict, family-of-origin patterns, and ADHD in relationships — and on couples intensives, because I've watched couples change more in one focused day than in months of the weekly hour.
Warm and direct. I'll hold real space for what's painful — and I won't let the two of you stay stuck in the patterns that brought you in. You'll feel cared for, and you'll do brave, honest work.
Seventeen years of running rooms that didn't want to be run.
Before I was a therapist, I spent 17 years in technology sales, at three of the largest tech companies in the world. Sales, done well, isn't talking — it's listening for what someone actually needs underneath what they're asking for, and staying steady when the room gets tense.
It turns out that's excellent training for a room with two people in it. I know how to slow a conversation down when it's running away, how to keep one voice from swallowing the other, and how to get to the thing nobody is saying. You'll feel that in the first session.
I've lived both sides of this.
I'm divorced, and remarried. I know what it feels like when a marriage ends, and I know what it takes to build a second one on purpose — with more skill and less guesswork than the first time.
Between us we have three children, two stepchildren, and three dogs. So when you tell me about the logistics, the blended-family politics, and how little time is left over for the two of you — I'm not imagining it.
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I’m trained in a variety of therapy methods, allowing me to tailor my approach to your unique goals and needs. These include:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) & (ACT)
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
The Gottman Method
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CORNELL, Bachelors of Science (BS)
UMASS, Masters of Couples and Family Therapy (MFT)
Licensure (LMFT) under supervision
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