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about me<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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A<\/strong><\/font><\/font>fter a career in research, writing, and public relations, I finally took to heart a quote by Lao Tzu \u2014 \u201cIf you don\u2019t change direction, you\u2019ll end up where you are going\u201d \u2014 and decided to follow up on a long-time interest in psychology.<\/p>\n

I am now a licensed clinical social worker, with experience working in psychiatric hospitals, a community mental health center, outpatient clinics, and a hospice organization. My patients have had a variety of diagnoses, from major depressive disorder to anxiety and PTSD. The couples I treat struggle with communication and problem-solving, as well as life transitions.<\/p>\n

I earned my MSW from the School of Social Work at Loyola University Chicago, interning at the Adult Psychotherapy Clinic at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and at Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care. To deepen my clinical work, I completed two fellowships, one at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and one at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. Earlier, I graduated from New College with a bachelor\u2019s in psychology and, interested in the biological basis of human behavior, obtained an MS degree in developmental biology from the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n

I have had additional specialized training in child development (New York University), grief support for families (Children\u2019s Memorial Hospital), mindfulness (Adler School of Professional Psychology), grief and loss over the life cycle (Loyola University Chicago), and working with bereaved children (Barr-Harris Children\u2019s Grief Center, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis). I am certified in advanced grief counseling. I am also certified in the Gottman Method (Level 1), the Developmental Model, and Interpersonal Psychotherapy, all of which inform my work with couples and with individuals who are struggling in their relationships.<\/p>\n

Because of my interest in helping those who have suffered trauma, I volunteered as a therapist at the Kovler Center for Victims of Torture. Earlier, I founded a nonprofit organization called Ngiyakubona (siSwati for \u201cI see you\u201d), which ran several projects in southern Africa to help disadvantaged individuals affected by the AIDS epidemic. Recognizing that violence often lies at the root of trauma, I taught methods of positive discipline to schoolteachers in Swaziland (now Eswatini) and gave a talk on the ill effects of corporal punishment at the famous Pratichi Institute in India, founded and chaired by Nobel laureate Amartya Sen.<\/p>\n

Publications include a paper on therapies for grief, which appeared in the Clinical Social Work Journal. I am currently working on a book on grief and loss of all kinds.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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