Cindy Grajkowski, MS Ed
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Owner & Clinical Director, Consultant
Hi, I’m Cindy, an experienced therapist who enjoys helping people experience the healthy rewards of balanced and authentic living, self leadership, and connected relationships.
I founded Couples and Family Therapy Center in 2009 and have been proud to sustain a small group practice of high quality specialized care where we value health and connection for our clients as well as for ourselves.
I've been a therapist for almost 25 years and I have specialized in couples therapy, women's wellness, and anxiety disorders for most of my career. In recent years I've also enjoyed integrating adult neurodivergence awareness and care into the therapeutic process.
My style of counseling offers a non-pathologizing and integrative approach, practical coaching skills, and deeper emotional work with plenty of laughs along the way.
Women's Wellness:
- Anxiety Therapy
- High achieving, perfectionism
- Self advocacy and self leadership
- Improving self worth and self confidence through prioritizing your health and wellbeing
- Midlife Mental Wellness - addressing overall wellness, relationships and new goals in this phase of life, including adapting to menopause.
- Career alignment, fulfillment, transitions and changes
- Communication skills and emotional intelligence
- Healthy boundaries in personal and professional relationships
- Navigating marriage and relationship struggles or difficult decisions
- Infidelity recovery
- Exploring what it means to be "highly sensitive," embracing and supporting yourself when you are someone who thinks and feels more deeply and seeks the bigger meaning in life's experiences.
- Exploring an adult autism diagnosis, understanding and integrating this identity into your life, your work, and your relationships.
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy:
I have been a Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist and Supervisor for over 15 years and believe this is one of the most effective ways to heal relationships. I often help couples with:
- Reducing conflict by changing the stuck patterns of criticism, defensiveness, avoidance, and withdrawal.
- Helping distant couples who feel like roommates see if they can reconnect and build intimacy again.
- Recover from infidelity if both are committed to repairing the hurt and rebuilding the trust.
- Improving communication and emotional intelligence.
- Improving emotional and physical intimacy.
- Understanding neurodivergence and how that impacts the couple's relationship, and how to create a relationship that works for them.
I offer specialized couples therapy to motivated couples and utilize longer sessions for the most efficient progress. This is a cash service only and sessions are typically 75-90 minutes.
If you are looking to use insurance for couples therapy sessions, you would need to be treated for a mental health diagnosis rather than the relationship specifically. You can inquire about seeing me individually instead, or another available therapist who can help.
Models of Therapy I Utilize: EMDR, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique (Tapping), Natural & Integrative Mental Health Practices. In addition, tools from the fields of Career Coaching and Financial Therapy.
Contact:
To request an appointment, use the form on the Contact Page, or call the office at 715-441-1828.
Contact me directly at Cindy@CFTC-online.com
Education & Training
- Bachelor of Arts degree from U.W. Madison
- Masters of Science in Education-Professional Counseling from Concordia University WI
- Marriage and Family Therapy specialization completed at Family Therapy Training Institute
- Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist & Supervisor
- EMDR Therapist
- Certified Senior Professional Career Coach - International Association of Career Coaches
Insurance Provider for
BCBS, Health Partners, Cigna, United Health Care/Medica/UBH/Optum