Catalina Ortiz

Catalina Ortiz is a Florida-based mental health counselor who brings 12 years of professional experience to her clinical work. She has practiced in both mental health clinics and private practice, offering counseling, psychotherapy and psycho-education to adolescents, adults and older adults. Her clinical work has included culturally diverse populations served in Miami and in Qatar.

Ortiz views emotional struggles as part of the human experience and as opportunities for growth and greater self-understanding. She encourages clients to see difficult moments as periods of development and aims to guide them toward their own inner strengths so they can regain a sense of control over their emotions and life.

Working from a non-judgmental stance, she partners with clients who are considered the experts in their own lives, providing support, encouragement and practical resources that can be applied right away. Therapy is tailored to each individual because Ortiz believes there is no single solution that fits everyone; her priority is discovering what works for each person and collaborating to reach therapeutic goals.

Her therapeutic approach includes evidence-based methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and Narrative Therapy, and she also integrates psychological astrology when appropriate for the client. She is licensed to practice in Florida as a mental health counselor, credentialed under MH14381.

She is available to accompany clients through relationship and family challenges, parenting concerns, issues of self-esteem, coping with life changes, stress and anxiety, grief, depression, and LGBT-related matters.