About the Founder

Dr. Ina J. Creekbaum, Ed.D.

Licensed Psychologist · Qualified Medical Evaluator · Founder & Director, CICT

Dr. Ina J. Creekbaum
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Clinician. Educator. Author.

Dr. Ina J. Creekbaum is a licensed psychologist and the creator of Truth-Centered Agreement Therapy — an integrative framework she spent years developing, field-testing in clinical practice, and ultimately publishing through CICT Press.

She founded Illuminating Psychological Services, an established group practice now evolving into a clinical training site — the institutional home from which CICT operates. As a Qualified Medical Evaluator, she brings diagnostic precision and forensic expertise alongside deep therapeutic skill.

Her conviction is straightforward: lasting change begins with truth — and clinicians who have genuinely been formed in that principle change lives differently than those who have merely been trained in a technique.

Focus Areas

Clinical expertise

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Adult Mental Health

Anxiety, depression, mood disorders, identity and self-worth.

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Substance Use

Co-occurring disorders, recovery support, agreement-level relapse work.

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Trauma

Historical agreement formation, stabilization-first sequencing, trauma-informed TCAT delivery.

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Forensic / QME

Qualified Medical Evaluations, independent medical examinations, forensic psychological assessment.

Recovery begins with truth.

— The principle behind TCAT®

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