Catherine is a transplant from Seattle where she spent the majority of her adulthood after a childhood living in Seattle; Tacoma; Portland; Boise; Menlo Park, California; McLean, Virginia, and then back to Seattle at age 15. She’s a clinical social worker and completed her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Washington. She began building her gender-specific, Non-12 Step outpatient alcohol treatment program for professionals (A Positive Alternative) in Seattle (Wallingford) in 1990. It still exists today.

Catherine’s work now is online consultations regarding alcohol use (for those who want to change their drinking patterns as well as for concerned family members). She also specializes in working with people in their early-mid 20s with social anxiety disorder especially where that intersects with depression.

Catherine feels so fortunate to have found UUCS and Todd at the particular point in time where it felt important for her to stand strongly with his leadership and become part of the Board of Trustees. Our weekly bylaws revision meetings have allowed her the great pleasure of getting to know her fellow board members who are truly fun and meaningful company — even when doing something so seemingly boring as line-by-line examination of a bureaucratic document!

Catherine has recently adopted her 12-week-old pup who she will be happy to share with all who are interested!