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 also practice Internal Family Systems, a means of healing PTSD without having to revisit the event. this is evidence based and rooted in both Attachment Theory and Family Systems Therapy. 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
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Eclectic
I am LGBTQ friendly and non-judgmental. I practice a wide variety of evidence-based therapy techniques ranging from Internal Family Systems to Cogntive Behavioral Therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique, and Jungian-informed care. I invite clients to incorporate journal and process-based art therapies into their self-exploration journey, and am always learning new techniques to add to my toolbox. 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. 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 counseling, helping you to see how your uniquely shaded lenses of experience color your perceptions.
Jungian
Have you ever noticed that the same, seemingly inconsequential, circumstance seems to trigger an emotional reaction? Exploring our shadow and dream analysis can help considerably to help us grow and develop into whole, balanced people who choose to respond, rather than being triggered to react emotionally.
Cognitive Processing (CPT)
Clients find engaging in Cognitive Processing Therapy to be quite challenging, but equally as liberating from their past traumatic events. Clients must bring a willingness to delve into their past traumas and be willing to dow 15-30 minutes homework per day, and I will gently guide them through challenging their misapperceptions about themselves, the world, and others, to a more balanced perception. The Veterans' Administration has found this therapy to be extremely effective in treating combat veterans and others struggling with PTSD. This is an evidence-based modality of treatment that the Veteran's Administration favors. Research reflets 60% of clients need less than 12 sessions, with another 25% needing up to 15 sessions to mitigate their symptoms of PTSD
Motivational Interviewing
I have found Motivational Interviewing to be very helpful during my years as a substance abuse therapist. Motivational Interviewing helps to mitigate the indecision clients often struggle with when faced with making changes, whether to attain or maintain abstinence from a substance, or whether to change jobs.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
We will explore your perceptions of yourself, others, and the world at-large to determine whether you are carrying any misapperceptions, which are largely maladaptive coping mechanisms related to experiences in childhood. Together, we will reframe your perceptions into a more realistic framework to help you reclaim your balance and a peaceful life, free from PTSD symptoms. The long-term goal is for the client to become their own therapist, learning skills to mitigate any future severe challenges.