Cathy Eisenhower is an LPC and clinical supervisor licensed in Maryland, Texas, and Washington, DC. She began her work in community mental health, and her private practice now includes adults and children of diverse backgrounds and ages. At the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis, she completed the Psychoanalytic Studies Program, and just joined the faculty for the New Directions writing program. Through the WBCP’s partnership with Jubilee Jumpstart, an early childhood center for families with the least access, she provides low-fee psychotherapy to teachers. As a critical component of her clinical work and thinking, she participates in a long-term, weekly whiteness and psychoanalysis study group.
Cathy earned her B.A. in English/Women’s Studies, a Ph.D. in Creative Writing, an MLIS, and an M.Ed. in counseling. She has published on critical pedagogy, taught writing and research for many years, authored several collections of poetry, and co-curates a reading series at a nonprofit community art space.