About Caitlin Dwyer, LCSW Online Therapist

After earning my MSW from the University of Pennsylvania, I spent over a decade as a clinical social worker at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. I sat with patients, families, and clinicians through some of the hardest moments a person can face. Serious illness. The death of loved ones. The particular grief of a body that stops cooperating. That work gave me something no training program could: a deep, unromantic respect for human vulnerability, and an equally deep respect for what people are capable of on the other side of it.

Then I lost both of my parents in 2020. Inside that grief, a question I'd been circling for years got louder: what does meaning and purpose in life even look like?

I didn't have a clean answer. But I had enough clarity to make a decision. I left my hospital role, moved my practice entirely online, and eventually moved to Paris. Not because I had it figured out, but because I was tired of waiting until I did.

I bring clinical training, the lived experiences and the ongoing experiment of an intentional life into the therapy space. I work best with people who feel things deeply, who are asking real questions about how they want to live, and who are ready to slow down enough to actually explore them.

If you're navigating a life that doesn't follow a traditional path, whether by choice, by circumstance, or by some complicated mix of both, I'd be glad to talk.

MSW, University of Pennsylvania, 2011. Licensed in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Washington DC, and Vermont. Postgraduate training in existentially-informed therapy, somatic and nervous system approaches, CBT (Beck Institute), ACT, and grief work.