Kaitlyn Hennig, M.A.

Kaitlyn Hennig is a predoctoral clinical extern at CFI. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Manhattan College in 2022. She also received her master’s degree in general psychology from Touro University in 2024, and is currently pursuing her doctorate in clinical psychology (Psy.D.) from Touro University. 

Kaitlyn practices evidence-based approaches, including cognitive therapy (CBT), behavioral activation (BA), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), on a range of mental health challenges such as anxiety, depression, and various behavioral difficulties. She has been conducting therapy for the last year in a college counseling center with a wide range of patients spanning all different ages and presenting difficulties. She practices a client-centered, strengths-based, integrative approach by pulling from CBT, ACT, and DBT. These approaches inform how she conducts therapy by helping clients notice the changes they want to make surrounding unhelpful patterns and how they can best enact that change. In addition, Kaitlyn works to help clients become more in touch with their emotional experiences and thus better engage in emotion regulation, self-compassion, and acceptance. 

Kaitlyn is interested in self-compassion, mood disorders, and health psychology. In addition, she has enjoyed working with young adults and is interested in expanding her experience to working with children and their families. She typically works with young adults presenting with mood disorders, but she is open and excited to work with everyone to expand her understanding of the different experiences and presentations of mental health.   

Kaitlyn is a member of the Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies. She presented two posters at the last conference about the DERS scale, including Development of the Revised Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-R): A Higher-Order Factor Analysis and A Closer Look: Examining the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) with Exploratory Graphical Analysis (EGA). In addition, she has been recognized as an author on three different published peer-reviewed articles. Two of the articles are about empirical aesthetics, and one is on post-traumatic growth in a non-Western culture.  Finally, Kaitlyn has recently undergone training in DBT through PESI and CBT through NYC-CBT.