Cathy Betti

Cathy Betti is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing only virtually in both Illinois and Michigan. She works with older adult individuals and couples. Her current caseload is a largely a mixture of executives, stay-at-home-moms, newlywed couples, and seasoned couples. Cathy particularly enjoys working with: Couples - young couples learning to navigate their relationship, communication and arguments, marriage, children, family boundaries; older couples who have been married 15+ years struggling with communication, infidelity, hiccups, life adjustments such as retiring or empty nesting; individuals who were raised not to process their feelings who are ready to learn to do so; individuals who want help with setting and maintaining boundaries with family/friends/partners; individuals with relationship issues; anxiety; processing family of origin and childhood experiences to learn how they impact individuals and relationships today and how to heal from those moving forward.

Cathy is a systemic therapist trained in Integrative Systemic Therapy. She is not married to one model, but rather pulls from a wide array of models and taylors them to fit each individual client's needs at any given time. She thinks of the system as a whole and how different parts of life impact the individual.

Cathy received her Bachelor of Arts with dual degrees in Management and in Psychology from Hope College in Holland, Michigan. She received her Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy from Northwestern University. Cathy trained at the Bette. D. Harris Clinic at the Family Institute, and was part of the Community Program, working with an underprivileged population in Evanston, Illinois. Cathy is in process obtaining her AAMFT Clinical Supervisor accreditation and is currently supervising multiple students in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at Northwestern University. Cathy is also the Executive Director at Mindful Solutions, LLC.