I have 25 years experience providing counseling to individuals and couples who want to change their lives and relationships.
Counseling is a Partnership: With experience and training in several schools of therapy, I focus my skills on your needs and concerns to help facilitate positive and lasting changes in your life. Good therapy allows you to change your negative or unproductive thoughts and habits into new and more beneficial attitudes and actions. We will look at ways that your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors affect your life and examine how you might choose to alter them for the better.
Counseling is an Active Process: Your dedication, feedback, questions, and dynamic participation all contribute to your achieving the most positive and satisfying outcome to your goals.
Primary Specialty
Counselor
GenderFemale
EducationUniversity of Illinois, Roosevelt University
TrainingMasters Degree in Clinical Psychology from Roosevelt University
Clinical Training at Illinois State Psychiatric Institute and Holy Family Hospital "Keys to Recovery" Program
Additional study includes the University of Chicago, Northwestern University Family Institute, American Psychiatric Association, Hazelden, Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis, Illinois MISA Institute/Heartland Alliance
Experience includes individual, couples, group, and family therapy; private practice; hospital & out-patient psychotherapy settings; hospital & out-patient chemical dependence treatment programs; family support groups; community mental health programs; juvenile justice work & court-mandated substance use evaluations; supervision of psychotherapy students and other clinical therapists; presented workshops on such topics as "increasing self-esteem," "understanding and treating dual diagnosis (mental illness & substance use)", "how to be assertive."
ServicesSome reasons people come to see me include: Depression Anxiety Communication issues Problem solving in seemingly-unmanageable life situations Marriage or relationship problems Low self-esteem Recurring patterns of self-defeating behaviors Support in alcohol and/or addiction recovery Support and education for family members of people with chronic mental illness