Catherine Ferguson-Mappus
M.S.S.W., LCSW-S
Executive Director | CEU Provider | Therapist | EMDR Certified | IFS L1 | IPNB Trained
Clinical Focus:
Religious deconstruction & identity reconstruction
Anxiety, stress, and caregiver fatigue
LGBTQIA+ exploration & affirmation
Chronic illness, grief, and personal loss
Inner critic work & harmful behavioral patterns
Spirituality, meaning-making & alternative beliefs
Parenting, perfectionism, and self-worth
Troubled childhoods, complex trauma & dissociation
Non-monogamy & relationship-expansive systems
Substance use, shame, and self-perception
Modalities & Approaches:
EMDR (Certified)
IFS (Internal Family Systems Level 1)
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Somatic, Sound, and Earth-Based Practices
Life Coaching & Narrative Identity Work
Kink-affirming, Sex-positive, and Disability-informed
Kitty Ferguson - Mappus MSSW, LCSW-S, is a playful, irreverent and deeply engaged therapist who works with adults 18+ who are ready to explore therapy in an experiential, soul-centered way. Her practice centers people who have felt like misfits, like those deconstructing old belief systems, navigating alternative family or relationship structures, or untangling identity from trauma, perfectionism, or chronic emotional pain.
Kitty’s style is warm and collegial rooted in collaboration and built from hard-won personal healing. With a background in EMDR, Internal Family Systems, Interpersonal Neurobiology, and a lifetime of lived experience including neurodivergence, chronic illness, parenting, and complex PTSD she brings a rare level of depth, clarity, and resonance to each session.
Clients often say Kitty is the most engaged therapist they’ve ever worked with. Sessions are honest, challenging, sacred, and deeply human. This is a space outside of time, a co-created container where your healing is the center of everything.
Kitty offers only 90-minute sessions, allowing for deeper integration and transformative outcomes. While insurance does not cover extended sessions, she accepts HSA/FSA cards and offers superbills for potential reimbursement.
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
~ Albert Camus
Kitty’s approach is grounded in the Wholehearted House model she developed: a visual, integrative map of the healing journey that reconnects clients with their truth, resilience, and belonging. Each session is designed to bring clarity to what belongs to you and what never did. You will not be pathologized, you will be met with a non-judgemental perspective on whatever comes into the room.
Therapist with Lived Experience:
As a second-career clinician, sex work ally, parent, and spiritually sensitive misfit herself, Kitty brings decades of life experience and an unmatched level of compassion. She is neurodivergent, kink-affirming, and radically warm. Her humor, honesty, and fierce respect for your autonomy make her a uniquely powerful companion on your path to becoming unburdened.