Catherine Diana, LCSW

Catherine Diana, LCSW, brings more than 25 years of clinical experience in the field of sexual abuse and currently maintains a private practice specializing in the treatment of adult men and women who have committed sexual offenses.  For the past 14 years, Ms. Diana has also served as a part-time trainer on sexual abuse at Fordham University.

In 1993, she established an on-campus residential program for adolescents at LaSalle School in Albany and later directed the Huntington Adolescent Safe Options Treatment Program in Syracuse.  She also contributed to the development of specialized treatment programs for adolescents with sexual offending behaviors at Elmcrest Children’s Center.

Ms. Diana has conducted more than 200 workshops and training seminars on various aspects of sexual offenses. She has provided consultation on adolescent sexual offending behaviors and treatment programming both nationally and internationally.  She has volunteered her expertise to several organizations, including the McMahon/Ryan Child Advocacy Center’s Advisory Board, the Juvenile Sex Offender Treatment Committee, the Sex Abuse Study and Treatment Team (SAST), the Onondaga County Family Court Judges’ Committee, and the Onondaga County District Attorney’s Office Child Abuse Response Team (CART).

Ms. Diana holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from Syracuse University.