As an evidence-based relaxation and meditaiton trainer, I am uniquely qualified to help you learn to cope with grief, anxiety, past trauma, women's issues, and vicarious trauma experienced by veterans and first responders. My approach is eclectic, using interventions from a broad base of solidly-grounded, accepted theoretical orientations, including Cognitive Processing Therapy, an evidence-based, brief modality for resolving PTSD symptoms. I see clcients for anxiety, trauma, life transitions, and women's issues. Through sessions together, I will collaborate with you to assist you in recognizing your individual strengths and strive to empower you with the self-awareness and self-confidence to pursue your dreams. I take a person-centered, creative, non-judgmental approach to creating a safe space for counseling sessions, allowing you to unburden yourself and share your goals, while helping you to see how your uniquely shaded lenses of experience have color your perceptions. I believe that each individual has both a unique set of gifts and a world view shaped by past experiences and present circumstances. I also believe that in order to know where we are going, we need to realize how we arrived where we are in our present circumstances. Please feel free to reach out to me today to get started on your journey toward wholeness and health.

What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?

During our first session, we will be getting to know each other and completing anxiety, depression, and intake forms as a means of doing so. It is very important to build trust in the therapeutic relationship, so we will work diligently together towards that end. Additionally, I always give clients some fresh insights and, often, send them worksheets and information to help heighten self-awareness and to provide insights into what is causing discomfort to clients.

Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.

I am an A-B-C Relaxation and Meditation Trainer, as conferred by Roosevelt University. This Attentional-Beavioral-Cognitive method is an evidence-based means of teaching several techniques for clients to learn coping skills for anxiety, PTSD, and depression. Additionally, I interned at a hospice as a bereavement counseslor and have much to offer clients in helping them to resolve their grief. I have worked with many women experiencing life stage transitions and welcome them to my practice. In addition to more traditional modalities of treatment, I have studied and practiced a great deal of art therapy-informed counseling at Roosevelt University, The School of the Art Institue of Chicago, Northwestern University, and various workshops. (No art skills needed. This is about process-based artwork.) My clients have often told me that they can feel that I truly care about them as people -- and I do! I draw from myriad theoretical orientations from Gestalt and Jungian to Cognitive Behavioral and work according to client response specificity -- meaning I meet clients where they are and use interventions best suited to their personalities and level of understanding.

About Janice Frum, LCMHC