Connecticut runs hot — finance and law in Fairfield County, healthcare and academia in New Haven, insurance in Hartford. The state’s mental-health demand reflects it. I see CT residents by telehealth — adults working in high-stakes careers, students at Yale and UConn, and the partners and parents of both.
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Rose Markotic, LMFT — licensed in California, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Connecticut has the highest concentration of high-income households of any U.S. state, and a professional culture to match. Fairfield County alone is one of the densest concentrations of finance, biglaw, and corporate-leadership talent in the country, with a sizeable share of residents who physically work in New York City and live in CT. New Haven adds Yale and the academic-medicine ecosystem; Hartford adds insurance and government; UConn adds a flagship-state student body.
The pressure that produces those careers also produces the mental-health concerns I see most often in Connecticut clients: executive burnout, anxiety that refuses to log off, perfectionism that has been propulsive but is now becoming brittle, imposter feelings inside genuinely high-status roles, and the chronic procrastination/avoidance that perfectionism quietly drives.
Sessions are entirely telehealth — meet from a Stamford home office, a New Haven apartment, a Greenwich kitchen between school drop-off and a 9 a.m. call, or anywhere else in Connecticut you have privacy. As long as you’re physically in CT at the time of session, the location doesn’t matter.
Serving clients across Connecticut: Hartford · New Haven · Stamford · Bridgeport · Norwalk · Greenwich · Waterbury · Danbury
Whether you're in Hartford, New Haven, Stamford, or anywhere else in Connecticut, video sessions remove the geographic barrier — you just need a private space and a stable connection.
Every session is by secure video, so where you live in Connecticut doesn’t limit who you can see. A few of the areas I work with most often:
Finance, law, and NYC-commuter schedules leave little room for a weekly drive to an office. Sessions fit around early trains, late calls, and school drop-off — from home, or a parked car if that’s the only private space you have.
Busy family and professional lives along the shoreline. Telehealth means therapy happens between the other commitments instead of competing with them.
Yale students, postdocs, and the hospital and academic-medicine workforce — a population where perfectionism and imposter feelings are common and schedules are unpredictable.
Insurance, healthcare, and state-government professionals dealing with burnout, anxiety, and the slow grind of high-responsibility roles.
UConn undergrads and grad students — weekly sessions that work around class schedules and continue over breaks as long as you’re in Connecticut (or another state where I’m licensed).
Danbury, Waterbury, Bridgeport, the Quiet Corner, the Litchfield Hills — if you’re physically in Connecticut at session time, we can meet.
All sessions take place over a HIPAA-compliant video platform. You need to be physically located in Connecticut at the time of session.
A no-pressure conversation. You share what's going on, I share how I work, and we figure out together if this feels like the right fit.
An extended 90-minute assessment session. We review any measures or inventories you've completed, talk through your history, and clarify what you're hoping to accomplish in therapy.
Together we set the direction — what we'll work on, what tools we'll start with, and how we'll know when something is working.
Connecticut’s professional intensity shapes what shows up in the room. Common threads:
Finance, biglaw, healthcare, consulting, corporate leadership. We work on the cognitive patterns that drive over-functioning and the boundaries that protect what you actually care about — without dismantling the parts of your career you want to keep.
A signature specialty. Especially common in CT — the standards that built your career often become the thing keeping you stuck. We test those standards directly, in-session and between sessions, without losing the drive that brought you here.
Many CT residents work in NYC. Long days, train commutes, the cognitive cost of two-state life. We work on what specifically triggers the anxiety and where the leverage points are.
A growing portion of the CT caseload is undergrads and grad students at Yale, UConn, Quinnipiac, Wesleyan, and Trinity. Anxiety, perfectionism, and identity questions in academic contexts. Sessions accommodate semester schedules and breaks.
The persistent sense that you don’t belong, despite the evidence. A specific cluster of cognitive distortions we can name and work directly.
Common in CT’s self-employed professionals and high-output corporate roles. Less shame loop, real systems that match how your brain works under pressure.
Licensed in: California, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont
Telehealth across all five states
Most of my clients arrive having already tried hard. They're thoughtful, capable, often outwardly successful — and stuck on something the strategies that got them this far can't fix. What I love about TEAM-CBT is that it gave me a way to do therapy that respects how hard people are already trying. We don't sit with stuckness for years.
We measure how you're feeling at every session, look honestly at what's keeping change from happening, and use specific tools — not vague encouragement — to move things. I trained in TEAM-CBT through Dr. David Burns' Stanford group at the Feeling Good Institute, where I'm now Level 3 certified. The methodology fits how I work: structured, transparent, and built around real change you can feel by session three or four — not a relationship you maintain forever.
My counseling style is warm, empathetic, and collaborative. I provide a safe space to explore what's going on and generate solutions you can actually use between sessions. I'm currently accepting new clients across California, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Yes. Rose is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in Connecticut, which authorizes psychotherapy with anyone physically located in the state at the time of session. Hartford, New Haven, Stamford, Bridgeport, Greenwich, Norwalk, the rural northeast — all CT.
Unfortunately no — your physical location at the time of session is what matters legally, not where you live or pay taxes. If you’re sitting in your NYC office, that’s a New York session, and Rose is not licensed in NY. Many CT commuter clients take morning sessions before the train, evening sessions after the train, or remote-work-day sessions from their CT home. We’ll work out the logistics on the consult call.
Better Thoughts is a private out-of-network practice — completely independent from your employer’s EAP. Nothing about our work touches your employer or shows up on any HR-visible system. If you submit superbills to your insurance for out-of-network reimbursement, your insurer sees the claim, but employers don’t see medical claims on group plans.
Yes. As an adult (18+), what we discuss in therapy is confidential and not shared with the university, your dean, your advisor, or your parents (even if your parents are paying). Sessions accommodate academic schedules; we adjust around exams and breaks.
Better Thoughts is out-of-network. Most CT PPO plans (Anthem BCBS of CT, Cigna, Aetna, UnitedHealthcare) reimburse 60–80% of out-of-network therapy fees. Email us to request a superbill any time; you submit it through your insurer’s member portal — see our reimbursement guide at /insurance-reimbursement for direct links and step-by-step instructions.
No — Better Thoughts is private-pay only. HUSKY/CT Medicaid doesn’t reimburse out-of-network providers. If HUSKY is your primary coverage, the most accessible route is usually a community mental-health agency or a clinic that takes HUSKY directly. I’m happy to talk through that on the consult.
Each link goes to a focused page on what TEAM-CBT for that concern actually looks like — signs, how the work unfolds, and a condition-specific FAQ.
A signature specialty — particularly common in Connecticut's finance, biglaw, and academic environments.
Read more →For the chronic, won't-shut-off worry that runs through commuter lives and high-pressure careers.
Read more →For panic that surfaces in the highest-stakes moments — meetings, presentations, deal-closes, exams.
Read more →Licensing, NYC-commuter rules, insurance, and how to choose an online therapist in CT.
Read more →One therapist, five states. If you split time between Connecticut and any of the below, we keep meeting through the move.
Tech burnout, perfectionism, anxiety, and adult ADHD — for the high-pressure California professional.
Read more →Anxiety, depression, SAD, and perfectionism — telehealth where in-person specialists are hard to find.
Read more →College students, recent grads, social anxiety, and perfectionism across the small-but-dense state.
Read more →Structured TEAM-CBT for clients who already do mindfulness or yoga and want the cognitive-behavioral toolkit too.
Read more →Better Thoughts is a private telehealth practice — these external resources are independent and may help if you need crisis support, lower-cost care, or want to verify a clinician's license.
If you or someone you know is in immediate distress, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is free, confidential, and available 24/7.
Call or text 988 →NAMI Connecticut offers free education, support groups, and family programs — a useful adjunct to therapy or a starting point if you're not sure what you need.
NAMI Connecticut →You can independently confirm any therapist's license — including Rose's — through Connecticut's public licensing-board lookup.
Connecticut DPH eLicense — License Lookup →A 15-minute video call with Rose. We'll talk about what's bringing you in and see if I'm the right fit. No pressure to book sessions afterward.
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