LCSW, 1 years of experience
I am a licensed clinical social worker trained in the MSW and PhD program at Loyola in Chicago. I have done graduate studies in Philosphy and majored in Literature, Economics and Finance. I have practiced as a psychotherapist and also taught in the graduate school for over twenty years. I help people understand and work thru the problems we all have in our lives, our relationships and our work.
My first question will be "What's going on, and how can I help?". Together we will go about understanding what's going on and developing some short term and long term solutions.
A desire to help and an ability to understand presenting problems from a number of approaces - psychoanalytic theory, family systems, cognitive concepts, as well of consideration of the affects of race, ethnicity, gender and culture.
I have helped professionals and business leaders at the top of their professions and I have helped working people just starting their lives. We are all unique and we all have some thing we want to change. We have challenges of today as well as things unique to each of us that tripps us up again and again. I like to help.
Though we all experience simmilar problems and frustrations, the way they affect us and the way we respond is routed in our unique experiences and histories, includingt he history of the families we come from. This treatment approach integrates the inside (our experiences, our thoughts, our histries) with the outside dynamic of our lives, our relationships and our work.
I listen to a client's presenting issue and work with them to understand it, but the first treatment intervention is to together seek a resolution, a plan to make things better.
Our families affect the unique people we are and the unique ways we are affected by and respond to problems. This is always a focus in clinical conversation, even when the converstion is between one client and 1one therapist.