Cat Thompson Email & Phone Number

Cathy A. Thompson (CAT) is a licensed psychologist at the UCSD Faculty & Staff Assistance Program. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, where she completed doctoral research on the racial identity development of biracial Black/White adults. She has worked in a number of clinical settings, including the Children’s Hospital Center for Child Protection, Halcyon Crisis Center, and San Diego State University’s Counseling & Psychological Service Center. She also spent four years in the United States Navy as a military psychologist and recently moved to FSAP after working at UCSD's Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS) for 20 years. She is on the governing board of the Association for Women in Psychology as the Women of Color Coordinator (2007-2010; 2019-present) and is Past President (2010-2013) of Div 35, Section 1: Society for the Psychology of Women, Psychology of Black Women of the American Psychological Association. At UCSD, she was the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Officer for Student Health and Well-Being and the EDI Coordinator for Counseling and Psychological Services. She also served as the Liaison to the Campus Community Centers where she provided services tailored to underrepresented students and facilitated the Coming Out Group, Black Women’s Collective, and “Outside the Box,” an open forum for biracial/multiracial students, faculty, and staff. She is a member of the UCSD Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on the Status of Women, Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Issues, Women’s Center Advisory Board, LGBT Resource Center Advisory Board, and served as Chair of the CAPS Social Justice and Diversity Committee. Her clinical interests include multicultural and women’s issues, racial identity development (especially among biracial/multi-racial/ethnic/cultural individuals), sexual and gender identity development, adjustment and transition issues, and building healthy relationships through assertive communication and positive self-esteem. She also has expertise in working with eating disorders and adults molested as children (AMAC). Her theoretical orientation is integrative and incorporates humanistic, dynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and multicultural feminist approaches to therapy that encourage positive coping and resilience.In addition to working at UCSD, she is a part-time lecturer in the Women’s Studies Department at San Diego State University teaching the Psychology of Women and she has a small private practice.

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