Chalice Kopacki, LMSW

Chalice Kopacki is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) with 15 years of experience. She focuses on counseling adults and brings a calm, down-to-earth approach to sessions.

She has worked across healthcare, hospice, academic, and mental health settings. For the past four years she has concentrated primarily on counseling work. Chalice also teaches and advises college students on career choices, job searching, and interview skills.

In sessions she listens without judgment and aims to walk alongside people as they work through hard times. She helps clients talk through stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and major life changes. She also supports people dealing with addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, body image and eating issues, and caregiver strain.

Chalice uses methods drawn from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, emotionally focused therapy, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. That means she works to understand each person’s story, notice unhelpful thinking or behavior patterns, and build new ways to cope that fit everyday life.

Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, blended family challenges, long-term illness and chronic pain, cancer care, dissociation, and aging and geriatric issues. She welcomes conversations about practical steps for managing these concerns and for coping with career stress or compassion fatigue.

People who prefer a straightforward, encouraging style and a therapist who values listening may find her approach helpful. To begin, prospective clients complete a short questionnaire and schedule a time that fits their needs.

How Chalice’s approaches translate to online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience and offering an empathic, nonjudgmental presence. Online sessions can use that same supportive stance to help people tell their story and identify goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical strategies for changing them; that work adapts well to discussion, worksheets, and between-session exercises done remotely. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name emotions and change damaging interaction patterns, which can be helpful for relationship and attachment-related concerns even when done remotely.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Chalice will work together with each client to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She aims to make therapy a collaborative effort so adjustments can be made if something isn’t working.

The original biography does not specify which session formats are offered, so confirm available online options before booking. Many people appreciate online therapy for fitting appointments into busy days, reducing travel time, or allowing shorter check-ins around work or caregiving schedules. Online sessions also make it easier to maintain continuity of care when schedules or locations change.