About: Dr. Catherine Boutwell is a New York State–licensed clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology in Psychiatry at Columbia University’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and a Supervising Psychologist at The Motherhood Center of New York. She has previously been on faculty at the Women’s Program at Columbia University Medical Center and is currently a voluntary faculty member at Weill Cornell’s Women’s Program.

Specialties: Developmental transitions across the lifespan, peripartum mental health, complex trauma, attachment and relationships, infancy and early childhood, psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

Services offered:

• Parent-Infant (Dyadic) Psychotherapy

• Play Psychotherapy for children

• Exploratory/Insight oriented psychotherapy for pre-teens, teens and adults

• Psychoanalysis for adults

• Perinatal supportive psychotherapy for women during pregnancy and postpartum

• Couples Psychotherapy

• Parenting support and consultation

• Clinical supervision and consultation

Training:

Columbia University Center Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Candidate in Child Psychoanalysis, 2025-present

Columbia University Center Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Adult Psychoanalysis, 2019-2025

Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Affiliate Scholar in the Parent-Infant Program, 2018.

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Columbia University Medical Center, 2016.

Pre-Doctoral Intern, Columbia University Medical Center, 2015.

Education:

Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, The New School for Social Research, 2015.

Affiliations:

Columbia University Center Psychoanalytic Training and Research

The Motherhood Center of NY

Early Childhood Provider Network

APA, Division 39: Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology

APA, Division 53: Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology

Zero to Three

Postpartum Support International