Catrien Villamil
Catrien Villamil, LMFT is an LA-based marriage and family therapist. Catrien started off her career in education, joining the Dutch Peace Corps in Bolivia for 3 ½ years, where she organized Indian women’s groups and taught childcare and nutrition. She began her mental health career first working at private psychiatric facilities, then in private practice with child abuse and domestic violence victims, domestic abuse perpetrators, and the developmentally disabled. She’s been in private practice since 2002. Catrien’s primary focus is trauma processing through EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, a highly effective method for processing pain, grief, trauma, and ingrained negative thinking.
