Testimonials

I want to let you know that I have donated to the International OCD Foundation in your honor. I am so grateful for the work we have done together and how much you have helped me. It has been super impactful and given me some peace. I don’t know what I would have done if I hadn’t found you and had such effective treatment. I have suffered with this for decades and want others to be able to find this relief as well. I’m sure your parents are so proud of you. You are really out there helping others. Please thank them for me.

Hi Dr Fine, … I know that it has only been a couple of weeks since our last visit, but I have been doing really well and using the skills daily. You know how grateful I am for this help you gave me!!  I will always be your biggest fan! Thank you so much, sorry I am getting emotional. You changed my life.

Dr. Fine:
We want to thank you for all of your help over the past couple of years. Your constant kindness, understanding & empathy have been very important and helpful to us throughout a very difficult time period. Furthermore we can’t put into words how appreciative we are of you for going above and beyond for us with the many extra things you did. We noticed all of it, and we are very grateful to you. We wish you great success in your new practice. We know you will help many, many people, and like us, they will be lucky to have found you. Thank you for everything.

It’s been fantastic working with you, and your help has been life changing over the last few months! Thank you for all that you do.

I hugged my mom and dad for the first time in 10 years. You’re my Dr. Fine.

I am so happy I reached out for help. I was in a really bad place and now I’m not. Thank you for everything.

I still read through the notes you have given me, and they help me a lot. Thank you again for all of your help.

I appreciate your positive attitude, devotion and enthusiasm. You are a very smart woman with a great way of connecting to people.

Hi Kathi. I hope you are well. We just wanted to thank you for ALL that you’ve done with [name] and with us in terms of helping us identify and address some of [name]’s concerns. You have been just wonderful. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[Son’s name] found that it was helpful the way you explain stuff. I appreciated that you worked with both [son’s name] and [daughter’s name]. The open and collaborative approach was helpful. Thank you for all you have done to help our family.

[I] also want to let you know that you have been very useful for him and I use a lot of your advice too as it is so practical and smart. You have been a great help to our family and it is very much appreciated!

Hi Kathi,
Can you please give [name] some business cards tomorrow? I’ve been bragging about the great work you have been doing & now a friend and dr. [name] at Children’s would like your contact info. And – thank you for the great work you do!

Kathi

Just wanted to thank you for today’s session.  Prior to coming [name] was anxious and DID NOT want to come …  Not only was it a positive experience where I know she will want to come back but I think she made great progress as well …  It was an amazing start!

Dr. Kathi Fine Abitbol was very insightful, sensitive and observant. She said all the right things. I felt my child was improving with each session. Thank you for getting us through this difficult time.

Very productive experience. Thanks for your kindness and intuitiveness.

Dr. Kathi Fine helps me with a lot of my problems and Dr. Kathi helps me with my conditions. Thank you for everything you are wonderful. ☺

Hi Dr. Kathi,
I just wanted to say thank you so much for writing me the letter and the logs to submit to my insurance for bariatric surgery approval. I just found out today that I was approved and I should have my surgery sometime in the near future. I haven’t felt this hopeful and optimistic in a very long time and I am so thankful that you took the time to do that for me. I hope all is well with you and I really can’t express my gratitude to you enough!

Flexible with scheduling
Very easy to talk to
Gave me techniques, HW [homework]

I’m sure the next sessions will be more challenging but that’s ok – even if it’s baby steps…we’ll take it! Thank you for everything.

I know I’ve said this before but this is the first type of therapy that has been really helpful. I feel like I learn skills, apply the skills and see results that week. Thank you. 

You work miracles I always feel better after talking to you. 

On social media, recommendation inquiry for OCD treatment:

“I highly recommend Dr. Kathi Fine”

“I second Kathi Fine. Amazing”

I wanted to thank you so much for all of your help. You truly made a huge difference in my life. Your job must be so meaningful because you really make a difference. When we started I wasn’t able to do so many important things that now I am able to do. Your ability to be compassionate yet motivating was exactly what I needed. I’ve gone to therapists before but working with you was very helpful for me. Thank you.

OCD treatment made me very disciplined. In only 4 months I got into remission. I didn’t believe you when you said I was going to get here. Crying. I am so proud. Thank you so much. I did it.

I want to say thank you for everything. You really changed our lives. We weren’t able to find someone willing to help us and we really needed you. You gave us what we needed and we are so appreciative for you.

[From a clinician] I highly recommend Kathi Fine Abitbol! The referrals I have sent speak very highly of her!

I also wanted to say thank you so much for helping [name]. I am so proud of how great [name] is doing. I have seen such an improvement in her since she started her sessions with you. I can’t thank you enough! You’re amazing at what you do!

You’re nice and motivating. You use positive reinforcement and focus on successes. Past experience only used tough love which was not right for me.

You work miracles I always feel better after talking to you.

Dr. Fine is an excellent therapist. I have been to other therapists, but have made the most improvement with Dr. Fine. She finds the right balance between speaking, asking pertinent questions and hearing what I have to say. Dr. Kathi Fine is very insightful into very delicate issues. I highly recommend her.

Dr. Kathi Fine Abitbol was very insightful, sensitive and observant. She said all the right things. I felt my child was improving with each session. Thank you for getting us through this difficult time.

Kathi is very interactive in our sessions. I value her listening and providing insightful feedback. I appreciate her helping me with behavioral responses to a given situation. Her nurturing approach validates me and gives me a better foothold on day to day issues. I would love to have non-stop therapy in my home! A go-to therapist whenever a ‘crisis’ happened LOL / No improvement currently necessary, exceptional service being given.

From the 1st phone call with Dr. Fine, she was upbeat, understanding, kind, and she said “I can help you. You aren’t the only one who suffers with this.” I felt like I was understood for the 1st time in a very long time.

I liked that we didn’t have to spend too long talking about my past, but rather dealt with the problems at hand, and new problems as they arose. The sessions have really adjusted with my needs.

Hi Dr. Kathi!
I just wanted to check in and say thank you so much again for all the guidance and the valuable tools you taught me over the last year [personal info]. For the first time in a long time I feel genuinely happy almost every day. [Personal info] I am not sure if I would have been stable enough to make the leap had you not reminded me and taught me that I am worth more than what I was receiving before. [Personal info] Thank you again for seeing the potential in me when I could not see it myself and challenging me to face some of my biggest fears. I still have a lot of work to do, but for the first time in a long time I am enjoying the ride.

I hope you and your family are well and wish you so much success in your career as you continue to change lives. Thank you again.

I am so thankful for my time with Kathi! She listens to what I say and asks questions. She has given me tools that will carry me through. My thinking and thought processes are changing for the better. The way I function has improved because of Kathi. Thank You.

Since this is my first experience with a therapist I have nothing to compare it to, but the cognitive and behavioral therapy helped greatly. Currently the patience and review of thinking and thought processes has helped me analyze and break down my negative habits. The environments is comfortable and I feel calm.

Thanks again for writing the note for [name].  Though I felt kind of weird that I needed it (so they said) it did the trick and he was moved from high stress class to hopefully more manageable situation!  I am so grateful to have you as such an important contributor to helping [name] lead a more balanced and happy life!

Hello Dr. Fine,
I hope you are doing well. I think about you often, I am happy that we were referred to you. I value the work that you do to help people, and I can imagine, helping families; I am so happy that you have the career profession that you do, which is a blessing of providing healthcare to patients and their loved-ones and others in the patients’ lives. I am sincere with my gratitude for you, and the existence of the treatments that you and others such as you provide.

I just have to tell you something so funny….we were walking to the car and she goes “well that was money well spent!”  LOL – I was cracking up.

We are grateful for the time we had with you and hope our paths cross again in the future. Thank you.

Thank you for all you do b/c you are truly a huge help in her /our lives! 

Hi Dr Fine, sorry to contact you outside of our sessions, but had to just thank you. I have spent the last few hours not feeling tortured. Even if I don’t get any better than I am right now, it’s a life changer for me. Don’t mean to be dramatic, it’s really true. See you Tuesday.

[From a clinician] Hi Kathi, I meant to reach out to you weeks ago. One to thank you for responding to my referral request, and second to ask if you could share with me the ERP training you attended or one you would recommend? I almost burst into tears hearing about the incredible progress of one of your clients. Any suggestions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!  …  Also my best friend, [name], is a local psychologist.  I have been raving about you to her.  She had someone reach out to her for a recommendation for their daughter and she asked me for your contact info.  Just letting you know if this woman references [name]’s name.

I know I’ve said this before but this is the first type of therapy that has been really helpful. I feel like I learn skills, apply the skills and see results that week. Thank you.

You were awesome. We are so appreciative for what you did for [name]. We would love to have you see her again. I would love to just talk to you and express my appreciation for what you did in the past. You were such a good mix of research-based-facts and compassion. She recognized how helpful you were and it would help me too when she shared some information. You were so wonderful.


I just wanted to say that you are a wonderful psychologist. So many others did not understand me because it was OCD. You really get it and are empathic to me. Thank you so much.

The techniques to combat against the OCDs WOW! They work! Also the literature that Dr. Fine gave to me and my husband-such as ways to not encourage the OCDs.

Dr. Kathi,
Thank you so much for everything you have done, you have really helped me to start seeing myself and my capabilities more clearly than ever before. I enjoyed your approach with the exposure therapy, the exercises really pushed me out of my comfort zone without feeling overwhelming. Thank you also for always providing a judgment free atmosphere that allowed me to always be honest.

I like that we set goals, not so much to check things off as to just have a benchmark of how things have changed or what we still needed to work on. Your approach is very even-keeled, yet friendly. I appreciated how you gave me strategies to think about the situations and encouraged self-forgiveness.

She seems to really ‘get’ my daughter’s issues and has really helped her to see them objectively and work to make huge progress addressing them. I love how flexible she is, willing to work on whichever issue is the most problematic at that time. About the only way I could imagine improving would be if she could wave a magic wand. ☺ We really are so happy with the treatment & approach. I can see a huge difference in my daughter.

The whole process and experience has been helpful. Dr. Fine has consistently addressed my son’s needs in a very productive and insightful manner facilitating his growth tremendously. As his father, I can say that I have felt very involved in the process and appreciate Dr. Fine’s inclusion of our thoughts, ideas and concerns.

I wanted to say that the last year has been such a difficult time for me and your guidance has changed my life. In particular, I wanted to thank you for being so understanding and accepting [personal info] I wish you all the best 🙂

Accepting attitude, positive reinforcement, book recommendations. She was wonderful & brought me clarity.

Hi Dr. Kathi!
I hope that you are doing well, I truly miss being able to have weekly sessions with you, you were such a huge help to me in every aspect of my life!

I am doing very well since we last saw each other – I would love to schedule an appointment some time if you have any availability. I will be paying out of pocket because it isn’t covered by my insurance, but that is alright- I feel it would help me and would be very much worth the cost!

Hello Dr. Fine. [name] misses you so much and thinks of you often. You’ve been an important character in some of his short stories lately ;). Sending you the best!

I know she employs the strategies you and she have discussed, and she has a lot of inspirational handouts and guidelines she’s gotten from you and other sources posted around her bedroom. Thanks for your help, and be well.

I wanted to thank you for all of your hard work and help that you have given me during the last month and a half. I have really appreciated all of your time and effort and I feel as though I have made some strides. 

Excellent! Thank you.

I like how Kathi gave me good advice and let me say what I want to.

She helped me accept my mistakes. She also helped me with OCD.