Catherine Ndong

Professional Background

Catherine Ndong is a licensed psychotherapist with extensive international experience supporting individuals, couples, and families through emotional, relational, and life transitions. She founded Malaga Therapy, an international psychotherapy practice that supports clients through therapy, emotional wellbeing, psychological guidance, and deeper therapeutic work.

Founder of Haven Rest Retreat

Haven Rest Retreat was born from a clear belief: meaningful change often asks for more than brief appointments and fragmented conversations. While traditional therapy can be profoundly helpful, some situations call for a different kind of container — one with protected space, privacy, professional guidance, emotional safety, and enough distance from everyday life to truly understand what is unfolding. Haven Rest Retreat offers that setting: a private therapeutic retreat experience for individuals and couples seeking clarity, reconnection, emotional renewal, and lasting change in a calm, carefully curated environment.

Media & Publications

Catherine’s work has consistently focused on helping people move through emotionally demanding periods with depth, structure, and compassion — whether they are facing relationship challenges, personal transitions, emotional overwhelm, or moments when life no longer feels aligned. She is also the creator of Therapies Magazine, an international publication exploring mental health, wellbeing, and therapeutic approaches, reflecting her wider commitment to emotional health education and thoughtful therapeutic dialogue.

Therapeutic Approach

Catherine works with international individuals and couples navigating emotional overload, relational difficulties, major life transitions, burnout, identity questions, and moments when clarity feels out of reach. Her therapeutic approach blends emotional depth, professional structure, and human precision to help clients understand what is truly happening beneath the surface. Through her clinical work, she has supported clients across cultures, backgrounds, and complex personal situations — both in person and online.

Why Haven Rest Retreat Exists

Over years of therapeutic practice, one truth became clear: some situations require more than one-hour sessions. Greater privacy, distance from daily demands, protected emotional space, time to think clearly, time to feel safely, and time to reconnect are the core values behind the retreat. That is why Haven Rest retreat was created — a private therapeutic environment where deeper work becomes possible.

The Approach

Haven Rest Retreat is structured around coordinated professional support, with a multidisciplinary team contributing to the therapeutic experience. This creates a more comprehensive, carefully held environment where emotional work is supported with greater depth, continuity, and professional presence throughout the retreat.

• Clinical depth with a multidisciplinary therapeutic team offering coordinated professional support beyond traditional one-to-one care.
• Privacy & discretion in a carefully protected environment designed for clients who value exceptional privacy, calm, and complete confidentiality.
• Tailored support so each retreat experience is thoughtfully shaped around the specific needs of the individual or couple — never a fixed formula.

Malaga Therapy

Catherine is also the founder of Malaga Therapy, an international psychotherapy practice supporting expatriates, professionals, couples, and individuals navigating emotional and relational challenges. This clinical foundation informs the therapeutic depth, professionalism, and emotional safety at the heart of Haven Rest Retreat.