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Dr. Pamela (Pam) Kaczmarek is the founding owner of Pronk Professional Services, LLC, a specialized niche boutique private practice offering professional services to individuals and organizations across the nation. She delivers therapy, training, consulting, custom presentations, forensic testing, and clinical therapeutic services aimed at treating conditions such as complex PTSD (cPTSD), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), atypical anxieties, trauma, and related issues both directly and indirectly.

She provides evidence-based treatments for conditions such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), stress management, anxiety, depression, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Hoarding Disorder, and trauma.

Alongside her professional clinical training programs, she delivers direct clinical care to her patients using a range of therapeutic techniques, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Somatic Experiencing, Talk Therapy, Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). These approaches are designed to tackle the physiological challenges associated with trauma, anxiety-related disorders, and depression. She also provides innovative, state-of-the-art experiential therapy.

Her educational background includes earning her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Roosevelt University in Chicago — an American Psychological Association (APA) accredited program — as well as a Master of Arts in Clinical Professional Psychology, a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Columbia, and an Associate’s Degree in Science. She is a licensed clinical psychologist in Wisconsin with expertise in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), psychological trauma, including complex and developmental trauma, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), panic, phobias, Hoarding Disorder, OC Spectrum Disorders, and anxiety. Her Doctoral dissertation is entitled: Conceptualizing the Chaos behind Compulsive Hoarding: Nosological Considerations, Clinical Implications, and Future Directions. 

She has specialized training to treat PTSD, complex PTSD (c-PTSD), and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) from the Behavior Therapy Training Institute (BTTI) and the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF), which address challenging issues such as OCD, Compulsive Hoarding Disorder, and a variety of OC Spectrum Disorders. She also works with dental and medical phobias, eating disorders, and grief. She is Trauma Counseling Level II Certified by the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee School of Continuing Education. Additionally, she has completed EMDR training through EMDRIA and has achieved EMDR Level II — the highest level of training — for treating psychological trauma and promoting healing.

While in graduate school, Dr. Kaczmarek‘s academia training included a full-year practicum at the Youth Service Bureau where she worked with at-risk youth and families while attaining her Master’s Degree in Clinical Professional Psychology (link is to a representative program). Additionally, for well over two decades, Pam worked part-time “behind the scenes” at an international Industrial/Organizational Psychology organization with I/O psychologists.

After attaining her Master’s, she continued on for a doctorate degree, which included a full-year externship in adult neuropsychology at The Memory Center: The University of Chicago Center for Comprehensive Care and Research on Memory Disorders, as well as an additional full-year externship at Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Stone Institute of Psychiatry Outpatient Treatment Center.

She completed her Psychology Internship and Post-Doc years at a large non-profit hospital consortium in Wisconsin (example link; please provide the exact institution if known) where she continued to work with patients on an outpatient basis before extending her services into private practice.

Dr. Kaczmarek considers herself to be a true eclectic practitioner using evidence-based and evidence-informed methods while drawing on the synergistic powers of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT), Solution-Focused Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Experiential Therapy. She uses Somatic Experiencing® (SE) originated by Dr. Peter Levine PhD and EMDR to address deeply rooted psychological traumas with patients, as well as CBT, Talk Therapy, and Prolonged Exposure.

Dr. Kaczmarek has been called upon to provide services to clients who represent defendants in Court and provides services such as forensic testing, diagnostic clarification, second opinion, consultation, report writing, letters to the Court, and expert court witness for trial cases within her expertise. She is certified in Child & Family Studies, and is a Wisconsin State Court Certified Family & Divorce Mediator.

In addition to the impact of psychological trauma on the brain, hoarding disorder, and OCD, her growing clinical interests include novel approaches to chronic pain management, the neurobiology of human attachment, and interpersonal neurobiology (see Dan Siegel MD, Allan Schore PhD, and Stephen Porges PhD), working with first responders (police, fire fighters, combat and non-combat Veterans, etc.), and professional/athletic psychological performance enhancement.

Dr. Kaczmarek travels throughout the country delivering her full day continuing education seminar on Hoarding Disorder for PESI / Cross Country Education where she applies adult learning methods combined with clinical case examples and cleverly timed humor to passionately train professionals. She also maintains her private practice where she sees patients on an outpatient basis (Pronk Professional Services, LLC in Kenosha, Wisconsin). She is consistently recognized for her genuine passion (as well as compassion), humor, being “present”, and continually staying knowledgeable in her field. She works directly with Police, Firefighters and various members of law enforcement immediately after critical incidents in order to mitigate long term psychological damage.

Dr. Kaczmarek has been quoted in newspapers and interviewed on the radio discussing topics such as coping with adversity, depression, and compulsive hoarding. She enjoys working with patients individually as well as presenting to large groups and maintains professional memberships with the American Psychological Association (APA), International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), American Counseling Association (ACA), International OCD Foundation (IOCDF), EMDR International Association (EMDRIA), and various others.

Contact us today to see if Dr. Kaczmarek is available for your group or organization to do in-house, customized programming, consulting, or presenting.  

Typically, a minimum of 3-6 months lead time is desired for scheduling purposes.

Sorry, we do not maintain a wait list.