About Cathy
Cathy Drucker is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with thirty years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship difficulties. She uses straightforward talk and practical strategies to help people take the first steps toward feeling better. Cathy speaks English and works with clients in Illinois and internationally.
Her work focuses on what feels most urgent to each person. She draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to reduce symptoms and build coping skills.
Background and approach
Cathy also uses attachment-based ideas to address relationship patterns and emotion-focused tools when feelings get overwhelming. Cathy aims for clear, collaborative care. In early sessions she helps clients set goals and creates a plan that fits their life.
She explains what happens in therapy so people know what to expect and can make informed choices. Over her career she has worked with many kinds of concerns, including addiction, anger, eating and food-related issues, chronic illness and pain, obsessions and compulsions, panic and phobias. She concentrates on helping individuals identify steps they can take between sessions to make steady progress.
Sessions are offered in a variety of online formats. Cathy emphasizes practical skills and steady support so people can use what they learn day to day.
How Cathy’s approaches work in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and people who feel stuck because of worries. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT can be especially helpful for panic, phobias, and mood problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Cathy treats the choice of methods as collaborative and will help clients try different strategies to see what fits best. Goals, preferences, and everyday demands shape the plan so it feels realistic and useful.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let therapists and clients use visual cues for relationship and attachment work. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skills practice, and ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try tools in the moments they matter.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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