Catherine Ness, M.A., LCPC
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor
Psychotherapist

(847) 749-0514 ext.15
nessccc@gmail.com

“No one understands what an individual is experiencing better than themselves.” Catherine Ness understands that her clients can only grow, heal, and/or change if they feel understood. Catherine's psychotherapy approach relies on her ability to develop powerful and trusting relationships with her clients. Catherine's exceptional ability to connect and empathize with her client’s experiences and struggles is the “bridge” into her client’s personal world. By creating a collaborative, trusting, and safe relationship, her clients are able journey with her in the therapy process.

Catherine has dedicated herself to her clients and helping them better define where they are in life and where they would like to go in the future. Recognizing that each person is an individual and has personal strengths and struggles is an integral part of her therapeutic technique. Catherine believes that by focusing on known and perhaps “undiscovered” strengths, everyone has the ability to improve personal happiness and over-come life obstacles.

Catherine’s intuitive and sensitive approach to counseling enables her to "reach into" her client's world, understand the problem for which they seeking help, and create a partnership with them to solve their problems. Her sensitive and intuitive therapy style enables her to connect deeply with her female clients. She is adept with life role changes, body image and self-esteem issues, inequality in relationships, parenting challenges, Postpartum Depression, codependency, and assertiveness challenges.

Catherine began her career working with adult survivors of childhood assault and incest. These individuals not only had to work through past traumas, but deal with the depression, anxiety and self-doubt that accompanied these early memories. Motivated by the strength and courage that she saw in these men and women, Catherine developed a therapeutic technique that allowed her clients to discover “unrecognized strengths” and build the self-esteem needed to be confident in life.

Catherine has also had extensive experience working with individuals struggling with substance abuse both as an inpatient and outpatient counselor. These experiences have led to a thorough understanding and development of effective therapeutic treatment of the physical, psychological and emotional consequences of substance abuse.

Catherine has had great success working with adolescents and adults who have struggled with anxiety, depression, OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder), relationship difficulties, grief and psychosis. Despite the particular difficulty one is experiencing, Catherine believes that everyone has the right and ability to find happiness in life.

Catherine's work with women's issues inlcude:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Eating Disorders
• Body Image Issues
• Low self-esteem
• Inequality in Relationships
• Parenting Challenges
• Postpartum Depression
• Codependency / Co-addiction
• Assertiveness & Self-Esteem
• Trauma Recovery
• Bipolar Disorder
• Schizophrenia
• Mental Illness