About Cathy Busch, LCSW, Relational Psychotherapist

An insatiable curiosity and a second career as a mother of two daughters perfectly prepared me for the deep-seated inquiry into human development and the dynamics that underlie our formation that has inspired me throughout my life. My desire to understand at ever-deeper levels continues to fuel and inform my work as a relational psychotherapist.

The basis of my training was graduate academic studies in clinical psychology and clinical social work, directly following my undergraduate years. During decades of work in this field, I’ve taken numerous post-graduate courses, staying in touch with the latest understandings in psychology. I have studied closely with some of today’s renowned experts in the fields of self-actualization, child development, personality disorder, affective neuroscience, and attachment systems research.

My mentors have included Dan Siegel, James Masterson, and Stephen Seligman. But for me, early interest in working from a relational model arose prior to the more recent scientific research clearly validating its efficacy. An intuitive sense of the vital source the interpersonal realm provides for sustenance of healthy living led me to continuous trainings that both satisfied my curiosity and carved me and my working model in a relational way very early on.

My personal interest in parent-child relationships grew keener as I was raising my own children. The challenges of parenting spurred me to delve ever more deeply as a relational psychotherapist, finding a wellspring of insight that enriched my own parenting and my work in my office. In recent years, with much success, I have focused on helping parents, creating and developing a parenting model that has been extremely satisfying.

I am the mother of two daughters, and I live in Larkspur, California with my husband of 30 years, David Busch, a respected Bay Area physician.

If you are interested in exploring relational psychotherapy with Cathy Busch, LCSW, please call: (415) 215-1339 or email: cathybusch123@gmail.com.