I’m Catrina Labrie, LPC-S, and I’m the founder of Renew Restoration.
At the heart of my work is a belief that continues to shape the way I practice, teach, and create:
People aren’t broken. They’re shaped.
I’m a trauma-informed therapist, and much of my clinical work is with adults, young adults, and teens who are trying to understand patterns that keep showing up in their lives: anxiety, over-functioning, relationship patterns, emotional overwhelm, burnout, and reactions that sometimes make a lot more sense once we understand where they came from.
I don’t believe we have to rush to change a pattern before we understand it.
I’m curious about what shaped it, what purpose it may have served, and whether it still fits the life you’re living now. For me, therapy isn’t about fixing what is wrong with you. It’s about creating space to understand yourself with greater clarity, compassion, and honesty, and then deciding what you want to do with what you’ve learned.
My work extends beyond the counseling room. I’m an educator and trainer, teaching clinicians to pay attention to the person behind the intervention, including the experiences, assumptions, patterns, and internal responses we each bring into the clinical space.
I also create Restorative Group Spaces, write books and practical resources through Groundwork: The Shop, and speak and teach on topics including trauma, patterns, capacity, culture, faith, and the ways we function in relationship with ourselves and others.
Faith is also an important part of my life and my work. Some of what I write and teach is explicitly faith-centered, while other spaces welcome people wherever they are in their own journey.
You might encounter my work in many ways: therapy, a group, a training, something I’ve written, or simply a conversation.
But underneath all of it is the same invitation:
Understand what shaped it.
Understand what it has been doing for you.
Then decide what you want to do with it now.
That’s the heart of my work.
Welcome to Renew Restoration.
Books by Catrina Labrie
For the work that continues beyond the room.
Writing has become another way for me to explore conversations that don't always fit neatly into a therapy session—the things we carry quietly, the patterns we don't always recognize, and what becomes possible when we begin to understand ourselves differently.
Some struggles are easy to see. Others are carried quietly while life continues as usual.
The Secret Life of Silent Suffering explores what can happen when pain stays hidden beneath functioning, responsibility, and strength. Through reflection, clinical insight, and real-life stories, the book helps readers recognize the patterns that silent struggles can create and begin making space for healing, honesty, and a different way forward.
Restorative Disruptions
Sometimes healing asks us to interrupt what has become familiar.
Restorative Disruptions explores the patterns, beliefs, boundaries, and relationships that can keep us moving through life in ways that no longer serve us. Through reflection, practical tools, and insights drawn from both clinical work and lived experience, the book invites readers to notice what may need to be challenged, changed, or approached differently.
Because disruption doesn’t always mean something is falling apart. Sometimes it creates the space for something healthier to take shape.
Helping Teens Discover Their Worth
Growing up comes with a lot to figure out, friendships, family, expectations, emotions, identity, and the pressure to know who you are while you’re still becoming.
Restorative Empowerment: Finding Your Worth gives teens a place to slow down and explore some of those experiences for themselves. Through reflections, exercises, and practical prompts, teens are encouraged to better understand their thoughts and emotions, strengthen their confidence, navigate relationships, and discover what matters to them.
At the heart of the book is a simple reminder:
Your story matters. Your voice matters. And your worth was never up for debate.