Catherine Busam is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Supervisor. She has over 20 years of experience working with families and children struggling with emotional and behavioral issues. Catherine has worked in multiple settings including the school system, juvenile justice, psychiatric hospitals, and foster care. She has both professional and personal experience with healing families in crisis. Catherine Busam’s primary model of treatment is client centered, family systems approach.
Catherine Busam is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Supervisor. She has over 20 years of experience working with families and children struggling with emotional and behavioral issues. Catherine has worked in multiple settings including the school system, juvenile justice, psychiatric hospitals, and foster care. She has both professional and personal experience with healing families in crisis. Catherine Busam’s primary model of treatment is client centered, family systems approach.
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Wonderful, warm care provider.
Nov-2024
I could write an essay on how she has helped me
Sep-2024
love the way she works with my kids so patience and understanding. She helps them with life skills and problem solving that affects their lives. EXCELLENT provider and teacher
Aug-2024
Cathy is the first therapist our family has ever used to actually listen and provide guidance for all of us involved- the entire family. She is kind and knowledgable and experienced and cares deeply for those she helps
May-2023
Cathy is amazing! She’s worked wonders with my son!
Dec-2022
Wake Forest Office
1748 Heritage Center Drive Suite 101 Wake Forest, NC 27587
Catherine Busam is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Supervisor. She has over 20 years of experience working with families and children struggling with emotional and behavioral issues. Catherine has worked in multiple settings including the school system, juvenile justice, psychiatric hospitals, and foster care. She has both professional and personal experience with healing families in crisis. Catherine Busam’s primary model of treatment is client centered, family systems approach. She tends to favor experiential learning with role plays, play therapy and gestalt techniques but she also uses cognitive behavioral therapy and psycho education. She is best known for her ability to work with resistant children in therapy. As a supervisor, Catherine hopes to train more Counselors in working with families and serving children from hard places.
Catherine has specialized training in Family Systems and structure Therapy, Triple P (Positive Parenting), Christian Counseling, Heartwork Journaling, Play therapy, Trauma Focused Therapy, EMDR, DBT, ABA, Crisis and Assessment, Critical Incident Stress Management, Behavior management, sexual abuse treatment, and sex offending treatment and risk assessment of juvenile offenders. Catherine is committed to helping families understand and treat mental health and behavioral problems and assisting parents in advocating for their children. Her motto is, “I’ll hang onto hope until you are ready to take it back.”
Wonderful, warm care provider.
I could write an essay on how she has helped me
love the way she works with my kids so patience and understanding. She helps them with life skills and problem solving that affects their lives. EXCELLENT provider and teacher
Cathy is the first therapist our family has ever used to actually listen and provide guidance for all of us involved- the entire family. She is kind and knowledgable and experienced and cares deeply for those she helps
Cathy is amazing! She’s worked wonders with my son!