Meet Cathy Palubicki, MA, LCPC
Hi, I’m Cathy, a mental health therapist, wife, and mom of two. I am a funny, genuine, kindhearted, beach enthusiast, who loves to go on adventures with my family.
I am the founder and owner of CMP Counseling, PLLC. I started my private practice as a way to align my professional and personal passions and goals. I love meeting new people, listening to their stories, and providing a safe place for them to feel heard, validated, appreciated, and valued. I believe the most important part of therapy is the therapeutic relationship between the client and therapist. I bring my genuine, authentic self to all my sessions with clients as a way to help build trust and to model that we are all human. I strive to create a non-judgemental, safe, and supportive environment. I am a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC). I graduated with my Master’s of Arts Degree in Counseling Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology in 2014. My clinical experience and training includes individual, couples, and family therapy within a private practice setting working with children, adolescents, and adults. I also have experience conducting group therapy in an intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization program. Additionally, I am a trauma informed clinician and trained in EMDR. I understand that everyone's life experiences are different and each individual is unique, so I include a variety of treatment methods based on the needs and goals a client wants to achieve in therapy. More information on specific types of therapy and treatment approaches can be found on this page. To learn more about specific areas of therapeutic services (or reasons for seeking therapy), click on the link below. I am here to support you on your journey!
More Information on Types of Therapy and Treatment Approaches:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - Identify unhealthy patterns (what we think/how we feel/how we behavior) in situations and challenge those patterns to help learn healthier ways to cope within those situations.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing) - believes past emotionally-charge experiences are overly influencing our present emotions, sensations, and thoughts about our self. EMDR processing helps one break through the emotional blocks that are keeping us from living an adaptive, emotionally healthy life.
Attachment Based - Helps people address and resolve past traumas and attachment wounds that stem from childhood.
Trauma Informed - Recognize and emphasize understanding of how traumatic experiences can impact one’s mental, behavioral, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being.
Person-Centered - Empathetic approach that empowers and motivates the client in the therapeutic process. Operates on the belief that every human being strives for and has the capacity to fulfill their own potential.
Solution-Focused - Focuses on finding solutions in the present and exploring one’s hope for the future to find a practical and realistic resolution of one’s problems.
Strengths-based - Focuses on internal strengths and resourcefulness, rather than failures or weaknesses.
Narrative - Views people as separate from their problems and destructive behaviors. That people are the experts in their own life and that it is assumed people have many skills, beliefs, values, and abilities that help them to reduce the impact of problems in one’s life.
Internal Family Systems - Every person is made up of a system of protective and inner wounded parts lead by a core self. Help to identify and accept different parts of our self to heal the parts of us that are wounded to help restore balance and harmony within the internal system.
Humanistic - Focuses on the person as an individual, with unique potential and abilities. Helping a person overcome personal difficulties through self-discovery and personal growth.
Gestalt - Focuses on present to help understand what is actually happening in our lives at this moment and how it makes us feel, rather than what we may assume is happening based on past experiences.
Dialectal Behavioral Therapy (DBT) - Adapted for people who experience emotions very intensely. Helps to understand and accept difficult feelings and to learn skills to help manage emotions.