Catherine Ambrose, LCSW

Catherine Ambrose, LCSW Catherine Ambrose, LCSW, is a psychodynamically oriented psychotherapist with 20 years of experience in private practice, mostly at The Temenos Center for Psychotherapy and Personal Growth. She specializes in treating women with eating disorders and couples with relationship problems. She recently graduated from New Directions: Writing with a Psychological Edge, a 3-year program in writing and psychoanalysis sponsored by the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. Her work has been published in Voices: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy.

I'm Rubber, You're Glue

By Catherine Ambrose, LCSW on 5/8/14 - 5:11 PM

“I’m rubber, you’re glue, what bounces off me sticks to you.” Recently one of my colleagues taught me this childhood taunt and response to name calling. It is one of the simplest and most accurate descriptions of projective identification that I have ever heard and makes me think of my client Nancy. Nancy and I occupy different ends of the political spectrum. It is interesting to me that I can work comfortably with clients who are different from me in very...

Calisthenics in Front of the Fun Hous...

By Catherine Ambrose, LCSW

Talk is Cheap. Really.

By Catherine Ambrose, LCSW

The Ones That Get Away

By Catherine Ambrose, LCSW

The Lying Artist

By Catherine Ambrose, LCSW on 4/16/13 - 7:15 PM

Once upon a time and many years ago when I was a very new therapist, I worked with a client who had completely made herself up. A lot of things never added up with her. For starters, there was her presenting problem. Some days she would report a diet of jelly beans (not many) and carrots, and yet she was never low weight. But since clients with eating disorders are so often metabolically out of sync, it didn’t seem completely unbelievable...

The "L" Word

By Catherine Ambrose, LCSW

Treating a Couple After an Affair

By Catherine Ambrose, LCSW