Caitlin Dwyer

I've been a social worker for over fifteen years, and for most of that time I worked at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, sitting with kids and families in the middle of some of the hardest moments of their lives. That work taught me something I carry into every session: people don't need someone to fix them. They need someone who can be genuinely present with them in the difficult parts. Some things in life don't just change your circumstances, they change your relationship with yourself. Moving to a new country, losing someone you love, living with chronic illness, years of people-pleasing and over-functioning and putting everyone else first. These experiences have a way of quietly disconnecting you from yourself, until one day you realize you've gotten so good at reacting and adapting that you've lost track of what you actually feel, want, and need. That disconnection (between who you are and how you're living) is almost always what brings people to therapy, even when they come in describing something else entirely. I work exclusively with adults. I specialize in anxiety, highly sensitive women, expats navigating life far from home, people living with chronic illness, and women who are living lives that don't follow the expected path. I'm also an expat myself; I moved to Paris several years ago and I understand firsthand what it means to build a life in a place that wasn't where you started.