ROBINSON & SOUTH HILLS, PA · TELEHEALTH STATEWIDE

Colleen Druga, LPC

  • Licensed Professional Counselor
  • MA · Argosy University
  • Working Since 2000
  • Accepting New Clients

“Compassionate, warm, and straightforward — I will help you find your core self.”

Colleen Druga is a Licensed Professional Counselor who has been working since 2000, seeing clients at CPA Counseling’s Robinson Township and South Hills offices and by secure telehealth across Pennsylvania. She specializes in trauma-informed therapy, anxiety, depression, and co-occurring addiction, working with adults, seniors, and college students through an eclectic, whole-person approach.

No program commitments
UPMC · Highmark · Cigna · UHC · UHN · Aetna
Adults, young adults & seniors
Telehealth available statewide
Working since 2000

WHO COLLEEN WORKS WITH

Who she’s for

Colleen works with adults, young adults, seniors, and college students, individually. Working since 2000, much of it with trauma and with the things that tend to arrive alongside it.

1

People carrying old trauma.

Trauma-informed work is the center of her practice. Colleen’s experience leads her to understand past trauma, how it shapes core wounds, and how those wounds affect daily life. She believes the work is not on reliving the wound but rather on how to heal from it.

2

People managing more than one thing.

Anxiety and depression with addiction underneath, or alongside. Co-occurring presentations are a stated specialty, and treating one while ignoring the other is the most common reason people arrive having already tried therapy once.

3

People who want something to do.

Colleen often invites clients to carry the work into the week — journaling, mindfulness practice, something to try at home. Not as homework, but because the hour in the room goes further when it has somewhere to land.

why work with Colleen

Compassionate, warm, and honest with you

Colleen describes herself as compassionate, warm, and straightforward. She believes in building rapport before moving into trauma work — and she will also gently challenge and guide you when it seems you are stuck, avoiding, or putting off the next step.

What brings people in

Something that happened and never quite settled. Anxiety that has started running the calendar. Substance use that began as the solution. Or a version of yourself you recognize from photographs and not from the inside.

How she actually works

Eclectic on purpose — healing is never one-size-fits-all, and she stays open to trying different approaches until you find the one that fits you. CBT and TF-CBT, mindfulness, shadow work, attachment-based approaches. The frame is whole-person: mind, body, and spirit, with your story traced from childhood to now.

What gets different

Self-worth that holds when nobody is reinforcing it. Emotional resilience you have practiced rather than hoped for. And the thing Colleen names as the goal — learning to prioritize yourself in a way you can actually sustain.

HOW COLLEEN WORKS

Seven approaches, and an open mind

Colleen is an eclectic therapist by conviction. If something is not landing she will try another way in, and she invites clients to stay open-minded alongside her — her own words: trying various modalities until we get where we need to go.

  • CBT
  • TF-CBT
  • Somatic
  • Mindfulness
  • Psychodynamic
  • Person-Centered
  • Strengths-Based

1

When something fractured the self

Trauma-Focused CBT, paired with somatic work for what the body held onto. The aim is not a complete retelling. It is understanding how the wound still shapes daily life, and gently finding the way back — slower than it sounds, and more durable for it.

2

When the thinking needs structure

CBT and mindfulness for anxiety and depression, carried into the week. Colleen uses journaling and mindfulness practice deliberately — the hour in the room is where you learn it, and the week is where it settles.

3

When the pattern is older than the problem

Psychodynamic and attachment-based work, tracing your story from childhood forward. Some of what runs your present was settled long before the current situation, and naming it is what stops it repeating.

CONDITIONS TREATED

What Colleen treats – who Colleen sees

  • Trauma
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • ADHD
  • Addiction
  • Emotional Abuse
  • Grief & Loss
  • Women’s Mental Health
  • Workplace Stress
  • Self-Esteem
  • Adults
  • Young Adults
  • Individuals
  • Women
  • Men
  • Seniors
  • LGBTQ+
  • College Students

For trauma

Trauma-informed therapy — since 2000

Trauma-Focused CBT alongside somatic and attachment-based work. Colleen has spent most of her career here, including with the addiction that so often arrives alongside it — which is why she treats them together rather than one at a time.

“Trauma may fracture the self, but therapy helps you return home to who you are.”

CARE PHILOSOPHY

Whole-person. Mind, body and spirit.

Colleen’s work centers on mindful wellness and whole-person healing — mind, body, and spirit, treated as one thing rather than three. Together you trace your story from childhood through the present, find the parts of self that feel misaligned, and gently realign them so you can move forward with some clarity.

She is straightforward that this is a two-way arrangement. Her ideal clients are open to feedback, willing to try different modalities until one gets traction, and prepared to do something between sessions — usually journaling and mindfulness practice. The hour is where you learn it. The week is where it takes.

What she brings is empathy, grounded guidance, and a focus on growth: strengthening self-worth, building emotional resilience, and learning to prioritize yourself in ways that last rather than ways that are a reaction to having gone too long without.

ABOUT COLLEEN

Finding your way back to your core self

If you are looking for a compassionate, warm, yet straightforward therapist who will empower you to find your core self, Colleen Druga may be the right fit.

Working since 2000, she specializes in trauma-informed therapy, anxiety, depression, and co-occurring disorders such as addiction. She is an eclectic therapist who believes healing is never one-size-fits-all, blending CBT, DBT, mindfulness, shadow work, and attachment-based approaches into treatment built for the individual rather than the diagnosis.

Her work centers on mindful wellness and whole-person healing — mind, body, and spirit. Together you explore your story from childhood through the present, identify the parts of self that feel misaligned, and gently realign them so you can move forward with clarity and confidence.

She brings empathy, grounded guidance, and a focus on growth. Her goal is to help you strengthen self-worth, build emotional resilience, and learn to prioritize yourself in meaningful, sustainable ways. She holds an MA from Argosy University and sees clients at the Robinson Township and South Hills offices and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.

CREDENTIALS & TRAINING

DEGREE

MA · Counseling

Argosy University

CERTIFICATIONS

LPC · Licensed Professional Counselor

ALSO TRAINED

DBT · Shadow Work · Attachment-Based · Mindful Wellness

FOCUS

Trauma-Informed · Co-Occurring Addiction · Whole-Person Healing

IN PRACTICE

Since 2000

Robinson & South Hills · Telehealth

IN NETWORK

UPMC · Highmark · Cigna

UHC · UHN · Aetna

2000

Working Since

Robinson & South Hills

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Trauma & Co-Occurring

Mind, body and spirit

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Personalized Care Plans

No program commitments required

CONDITION GUIDE

Therapy guides from Colleen Druga

  • Patient Zero

    Mental Health

    What Taylor Swift Teaches Us About Parasocial Connection

    Why millions feel they truly know someone they’ve never met — the psychology of parasocial connection, when it’s comforting, and when it’s telling you something.

  • woman lost in thinking about to do items shown on the image

    Anxiety

    When Anxiety Starts Making the Rules

    Anxiety rarely announces itself as anxiety — it arrives as good judgment, feeling like being careful, responsible, or thinking ahead, and by the time you notice, it may have been making your decisions for years. OCD is mostly internal: intrusive thoughts, mental checking, rumination, reassurance-seeking. Both respond well to treatment.

  • Accessibility

    Information

    CPA Counseling Accessibility Statement

    Our commitment to an accessible website — WCAG 2.1 AA, keyboard operability, high contrast — and a direct contact if you encounter any barrier.

COMMON QUESTIONS

Questions about working with Colleen Druga

What new clients ask most often before their first session.

Colleen is a Licensed Professional Counselor who has been working since 2000. She specializes in trauma-informed therapy, anxiety, depression, and co-occurring disorders such as addiction, and also works with ADHD, emotional abuse, grief and loss, women’s mental health, workplace stress, and self-esteem. She draws on CBT, TF-CBT, mindfulness, somatic, psychodynamic, and attachment-based approaches.

In Colleen’s practice it means the work is organized around what the experience did to you rather than around retelling it. Her view is that trauma fractures the sense of self — so the work traces your story from childhood forward, identifies the parts that feel misaligned, and realigns them. It also means pace is a clinical decision, not a schedule.

Often, yes. Colleen may invite you to do some work between sessions — usually journaling or mindfulness practice, sometimes something more specific. Not to create busywork, but because an hour a week goes further when it has somewhere to land. She will talk it through with you rather than hand you a list.

Yes. Colleen is accepting new clients at the Robinson Township and South Hills offices and through telehealth across Pennsylvania. She is in network with UPMC, Highmark, Cigna, Aetna, UHC, and UHN. Request an appointment online or call 412-439-1416.