Renaissance Center for Counseling

About Renaissance Center for Counseling

Renaissance Center for Counseling is the Arlington Heights, Illinois private practice of Dr. Catherine Papagiorgio, a Psy.D. and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with more than 25 years of experience. She offers outpatient therapy for individuals, couples, and families facing depression, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, divorce, parenting struggles, anger, stress, and chronic illness. She also holds certification as an Alcohol and Other Drugs Counselor (CADC), which may matter to families when substance use is part of the picture. Therapy can be brief or ongoing, depending on what each person needs.

Dr. Papagiorgio’s style is practical, interactive, and solution-focused, with direct feedback aimed at resolving current problems and long-standing patterns. She combines conventional and alternative techniques and adjusts her approach to each client, building on their existing strengths. Her specialty areas include couples and marriage counseling, child and adolescent counseling, women’s issues, and family therapy. In family sessions, she works on honest communication, conflict in multi-generational households, and transitions such as divorce, blended families, or a death in the family. Her background includes hospital and community mental health work, supervising interns, and teaching at the college level, and she has additional training in anger management, stress, and domestic violence.