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.

 "Just the Facts"

• Masters 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."