My name is Shelly Mark Lewin, and I am deeply honored to be joining the team of therapists at Grow Therapy. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with over 30 years of experience working with individuals, groups, and families in a variety of settings including private practice, outpatient mental health clinics, hospitals, healthcare systems, hospice care, and private organizations. My work is informed by my own personal life experience with mental health challenges and my goal is always to provide you with support and guidance during difficult times and on your healing journey. My professional career includes clinical positions in renown healthcare organizations including Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Joint Commission in Chicago, Kaiser Permanente in California and Mount Sinai Health System In New York City. I have extensive experience working with multi-cultural and diverse populations providing individual and group therapy, case management and crisis intervention. Throughout my career I have always advocated for the uninsured, underinsured and low-income clients.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
I am genuinely interested in healing human pain and suffering. I want you to live your best life. It takes courage to change behaviors and thoughts you’ve lived with for a lifetime, but you can heal. Therapy does work and psychological treatments are backed by science, however it takes repeated efforts and practice to change. We will work together, and my job is to walk beside you to help you move yourself toward your goals and cultivate healthier thought patterns and behaviors.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
As a therapist I possess several strengths, including intuition, trust-building, empathy, updated knowledge, and the ability to develop strong relationships.
About Shelly Mark Lewin
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Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people find new ways to behave by changing their thought patterns. I incorporate strategies such as role-playing, identifying and challenging distorted thoughts and beliefs, establishing positive structure, routines, rules, and expectations.
Psychodynamic
I utilize Psychodynamic Therapy which is rooted in the understanding that recognizing behaviors for what they are can help clients build healthy coping mechanisms. By utilizing psychodynamic therapy, I help my clients answer why they do what we do, tying past events and subconscious constructs into present behaviors and behavior patterns.
Solution Focused Brief Treatment
I utilize Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) by incorporating positive psychology principles and practices. I have been successful in helping clients change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems. This treatment method is a hope friendly, positive emotion eliciting, future-oriented vehicle for formulating, motivating, achieving, and sustaining desired behavioral change.
Trauma Informed Care
I consider the experiences of each client, and how trauma may have impacted their lives, what symptoms they’re experiencing and then I work with individuals to prevent re-traumatization.
Reality Therapy
I utilize Reality Therapy as a client-centered form of cognitive-behavioral therapy focusing on improving present relationships and circumstances. This approach is based on the idea that our most important need is to be loved, to feel that we belong and that all other basic needs can be satisfied only by building strong connections with others. Reality Therapy sees behavior as choices, and it teaches us that while we cannot control how we feel, we can control how we think and behave.