Catherine Harrington, PhD

is a psychotherapist whose vocation found her early, when her middle school classmates in Colorado, began to confide in her about their problems. She grew up in Denver, one generation removed from the family farm in Longmont. After graduating from Stanford University, where she spent her sophomore year in Spain, Catherine began teaching high school Spanish.

At age 29, with two pre-school children, she returned to school to become a psychotherapist and completed her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. Catherine was on the staff of the Counseling Center at UC, Berkeley for 10 years, supervised the clinical work of Ph.D. candidates at the Wright Institute and was an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She subsequently worked as an organizational consultant in the corporate world for 10 years. Catherine has maintained a private psychotherapy practice for more than 30 years. She has two adult sons and daughters-in-law, two stepchildren, six grandchildren, and lives in the Bay Area with her husband of 30 years. To celebrate her 80th birthday, she swam from the Golden Gate Bridge to Alcatraz – and enjoyed it!