Catherine Surovy, LPC, LCPC

Catherine Surovy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 13 years of experience. She practices in Montana and works with adults on concerns such as stress, anxiety, relationships, parenting, trauma, grief, addictions, anger, and self-esteem. Sessions focus on practical skills and clearer patterns rather than abstract theory.

She draws on several evidence-informed methods including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Catherine uses these approaches to help people notice unhelpful thoughts, practice new behaviors, and build steady routines that reduce reactive responses. She also integrates attachment-informed ideas to look at how important relationships shape coping and emotion.

Her background includes counseling in residential and outpatient settings and leadership roles serving Medicare families. That work exposed her to intense trauma cases and youth navigating systems such as DCS and probation. Those experiences inform how she structures sessions, keeps goals concrete, and communicates with caregivers where appropriate.

In practice she emphasizes clear communication skills, forgiveness and repair in relationships, and strategies for managing anger before it escalates. She partners with caregivers to share psychoeducation and improve responses to behavioral problems. Her approach aims to make daily life more manageable by changing patterns one step at a time.

People who come for help can expect straightforward coaching on skills like distress tolerance, behavior experiments, and mindful acceptance exercises. She asks about daily routines and relationships and uses that information to set realistic, trackable goals.

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