LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR
Philosophy of Care:
While you work with Belma, you may be impressed along with her compassion, enthusiasm for working with you, and her enjoyment of life. She desires you to attain your targets for a peaceable and brighter future free from avoidance, fear, reassurance looking for, and compulsions. She is aware of what it’s prefer to take the brave step of creating constructive change due to her personal prior journey of overcoming nervousness. She enjoys working with mother and father and important others to assist everybody in your, or your baby’s, assist system purchase efficient abilities that lower and forestall nervousness and melancholy.
Particular Pursuits:
Belma is fluent is Bosnian, Hrvatski, and Srpski and might help sufferers preferring to do remedy of their mom tongue.
Recognizing the toll nervousness can have on people, Belma understands the sensation of helplessness you, or your baby, might expertise when confronted with surprising dread, stress, and panic. She is aware of how isolating, irritating, and time-consuming the signs of tension may be. She additionally is aware of that therapeutic is feasible by means of dedication and the expert assist of a therapist who understands how one can face and overcome nervousness.
Belma efficiently treats these experiencing nervousness, social nervousness, generalized nervousness, well being nervousness, separation nervousness, college refusal, particular phobias, physique dysmorphic dysfunction, and obsessive-compulsive dysfunction (OCD). She particularly enjoys working with people with autism spectrum dysfunction (ASD).
In her free time, Belma enjoys spending time in nature, studying, and touring. She additionally loves spending time along with her household and buddies!
Expertise and Coaching:
Belma obtained her Grasp’s of Training in Scientific Psychological Well being Counseling at Northeastern Illinois College. She has prior expertise working as a household therapist at Rogers Behavioral Well being. She obtained intensive coaching in Cognitive Behavioral Remedy (CBT) approaches and routinely makes use of Publicity and Response Prevention (ERP), Acceptance and Dedication Remedy (ACT), Mindfulness-Primarily based Cognitive Remedy (MBCT), and Dialectical Conduct Remedy (DBT). Belma additionally might make the most of inventive therapeutic strategies together with Narrative Remedy and Artwork Remedy.
Belma is pursuing a PhD at Adler College.
Belma is a member of the Worldwide OCD Basis (IOCDF), Nervousness and Despair Affiliation of America (ADAA), The TLC Basis for Physique-Targeted Repetitive Conduct, and the American Counseling Affiliation (ACA).
Affected person Age Vary: 3 years and up
Workplace Location: Deerfield, Downtown Chicago
LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR
Philosophy of Care:
Milana Pehar is personable, heat, and non-judgmental in her strategy to working with others. She believes that the therapeutic relationship is a vital a part of remedy and the therapeutic course of. She helps her purchasers in turning into an skilled of their very own nervousness by offering psychoeducation, coping methods, and a customized nervousness toolkit. Milana believes in collaborating along with her consumer’s assist system all through remedy to allow them to additionally learn the way greatest to assist their liked one. Her final objective is to empower every consumer to change into assured in managing their nervousness and get again into residing the life they need.
Particular Pursuits:
Milana’s ardour for obsessive-compulsive dysfunction (OCD) remedy comes from her personal expertise with the dysfunction. She is aware of how persistent, distressing, and time-consuming this dysfunction may be. She additionally is aware of that restoration occurs as soon as purchasers are prepared to take this brave first step and start dealing with their fears.
Alongside along with her abilities in treating all OCD spectrum issues, Milana efficiently treats these experiencing nervousness, social nervousness, generalized nervousness, well being nervousness, panic dysfunction, agoraphobia, particular phobias, physique dysmorphic dysfunction, body-focused repetitive behaviors, and tic issues.
In her free time, Milana enjoys baking and attempting new eating places. She additionally loves spending time along with her household and buddies!
Expertise and Coaching:
Milana obtained her Grasp’s of Training in Scientific Psychological Well being Counseling at DePaul College. She accomplished her practicum and internship at Alexian Brothers Behavioral Well being Hospital within the Heart for Nervousness & Obsessive-Compulsive Issues. She obtained intensive coaching in Cognitive Behavioral Remedy (CBT) approaches and routinely makes use of Publicity and Response Prevention (ERP), Acceptance and Dedication Remedy (ACT), Mindfulness-Primarily based Cognitive Remedy (MBCT), and Dialectical Conduct Remedy (DBT).
To be able to present her purchasers with the very best care attainable, Milana participates in persevering with schooling coaching and present analysis regarding obsessive-compulsive spectrum issues and nervousness issues.
Milana is a member of the Worldwide OCD Basis (IOCDF), Nervousness and Despair Affiliation of America (ADAA), The TLC Basis for Physique-Targeted Repetitive Conduct, and the American Counseling Affiliation (ACA).
Affected person Age Vary: 4 years and up
Workplace Location: Deerfield
Odie serves a vital function on the Nervousness Therapy Heart as the ultimate canine publicity therapist. He loves coming to work and serving to individuals full their remedy with canines. Our largest canine, his pleasant demeanor (particularly you probably have peanut butter, be ready for plenty of licks!) makes him a wonderful companion in overcoming concern.
Odie is a boxer-hound combine. He loves howling alongside to the harmonica, enjoying with toys, and assembly new individuals. He’ll typically bounce as much as kiss you! He is a superb canine for individuals who have graduated from Cookie and Shiloh and are prepared for an exuberant expertise.
We’re completely happy to have such a fun-loving animal to assist our sufferers overcome their fears.
Shiloh loves being a part of the Nervousness Therapy Heart’s employees. He loves working with everybody and is at all times prepared to provide out his greatest canine kisses and tail wags for even probably the most anxious sufferers. His small dimension, fluffy mushy curls, and fixed enjoyment of individuals make it simple for any baby or grownup to really feel liked and to beat their fears.
Shiloh is a Cavapoo, a cross-breed between a miniature poodle and King Charles Cavalier Spaniel. He adores individuals and has by no means met an individual he doesn’t like. He has plenty of vitality and loves serving to Cookie (our different Canine Therapist) along with her sufferers as soon as they graduate to working with canines who’re overtly affectionate. He loves enjoying with youngsters and helps shy youngsters and adults meet different individuals as a result of he’s at all times able to make a brand new buddy.
We’re grateful to have such an enthusiastic greeter and playful companion to assist our sufferers overcome their fears.
LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR
Philosophy of care:
Ulyana Fenyn is captivated with serving to her purchasers overcome the obstacles, fears, and uncertainties they encounter. She has a heat and personable strategy and believes in a collaborative philosophy. By offering a nonjudgmental, protected, and empathetic setting, her purchasers may be heard, valued, and understood. She works with every consumer in establishing a robust sense of self, believing that the options and power exist already in every individual she encounters.
Ulyana extremely values therapeutic relationships and each alternative to assist others change into higher variations of themselves. She’s frequently impressed by the self-growth she sees in others regardless of trials of adversity. Utilizing a holistic strategy, encouragement, and humor throughout classes, her remedy plans are individualized for every consumer with a view to present inventive and evidence-based remedy. She additionally acknowledges the significance of working with mother and father and members of the family with a view to maximize remedy outcomes for youthful purchasers.
Particular pursuits:
Ulyana has labored with purchasers from a variety of socio-economic, non secular, and cultural backgrounds. She has expertise working with quite a lot of diagnoses corresponding to Generalized Nervousness Dysfunction (GAD), panic dysfunction, particular phobias, depressive issues, bipolar dysfunction, PTSD, grief and loss, social nervousness, Oppositional defiant dysfunction, and adjustment to persistent or terminal medical sickness. She additionally has expertise working with younger adults with neurodevelopmental issues in addition to bodily disabilities. She has run social abilities teams for kids battling emotional and behavioral regulation and assist teams for kids identified with most cancers and their households. Moreover, she has supplied post-adoption counseling and mum or dad teaching.
Ulyana loves to assist underserved communities and is a world volunteer. She spends her free time volunteering with native charities in addition to in orphanages abroad. She enjoys studying, touring world wide, exploring new cultures, understanding, making floral preparations, being outdoor, and visiting artwork galleries. She is fluent in Ukrainian and Russian.
Expertise and Coaching:
Ulyana earned her Grasp of Arts diploma in Counseling Psychology from The Chicago Faculty of Skilled Psychology. She obtained extra coaching in Trauma-Targeted CBT and Constructive Psychology. She likes to include CBT, trauma-focused CBT, ACT, mindfulness, strength-based, and solution-focused remedy.
Affected person Age Vary: Ages 8 and up
Workplace Location: Chicago and Deerfield
LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR
Philosophy of care:
Ying locations a excessive precedence on serving to her purchasers overcome nervousness whereas creating a brave and self-compassionate view of life. She enjoys serving to every individual uncover how they will change into their higher self by discovering that they will do greater than they ever believed attainable, one step at a time. She makes use of the newest scientific approaches to nervousness, resilience constructing, and emotional self-regulation to assist every consumer establish the beliefs, experiences, and challenges that make it tough to beat nervousness. She combines cognitive behavioral therapies, mindfulness, trauma-informed care, ACT, and solution-focused interventions to customise a remedy program. She strives additionally to show everybody methods to stop future relapse by cultivating sturdy psychological wellness.
Particular pursuits:
Ying is fluent in Mandarin and particularly enjoys utilizing her mom tongue to assist those that favor a Mandarin-speaking therapist. Her background immigrating from her homeland to the USA provides her a particular appreciation for sufferers experiencing nervousness associated to cross-cultural challenges. She has particular coaching in working with trauma and particularly enjoys working with youngsters, teenagers, and households. She loves working with all nervousness issues, ADHD and those that endure from temper issues.
Exterior the remedy setting, Ying enjoys completely different sorts of out of doors actions, together with mountaineering and biking, and dancing. She particularly likes to attempt completely different espresso outlets with buddies throughout her free time.
Expertise and Coaching:
Ying accomplished her Masters of Training from the Pennsylvania State College – Scientific Psychological Well being in Faculties and Communities program. She has been educated in Cognitive Conduct Remedy (CBT), Acceptance and Dedication Remedy (ACT), and solution-focused remedy. She additionally has expertise working with the BIPOC and LGBTQA+ populations and is a member of the American Counseling Affiliation (ACA) and Chi Sigma Iota (CSI). Ying has labored as a therapist within the Penn State College counseling heart, highschool district counseling heart, school of schooling and fairness workplace of PSU, and profession heart.
Affected person Age Vary: 6 years and up
Location: Deerfield
LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR
Philosophy of Care:
Sonia Chand is devoted to offering a protected house for sufferers to develop their talents and face the challenges that include having nervousness. She is very adept at working with the Autism Spectrum Dysfunction (ASD) neighborhood, offering abilities coaching and constructing for these on the spectrum. She is captivated with serving to sufferers obtain their fullest potential in order that they will stay their greatest lives, utilizing strategies like household intervention, mum or dad coaching, and social abilities coaching to help sufferers of their household environments. Sonia goals to construct her sufferers up by means of self-empowerment, serving to them handle the challenges they face with braveness and resilience.
Particular Pursuits:
Utilizing Cognitive Conduct Remedy (CBT), Dialectical Conduct Remedy (DBT), and trauma-focused remedy, Sonia works with quite a lot of completely different circumstances together with autism spectrum issues, ASD with co-occurring nervousness, nervousness, social nervousness, depressive issues, physique dysmorphia, persona issues, shallowness points, and nervousness with options of psychosis.
Exterior the workplace, Sonia is an avid runner, collaborating in marathons with the charity TeamUp Autism Speaks. Aside from working, she lives life to the fullest, having fun with music, motion pictures, Broadway exhibits, journey, cooking, going to sporting occasions, meals and avenue festivals in the course of the summer time, studying, and writing.
Expertise and Coaching:
After getting her legislation diploma and working towards for a while, Sonia realized that her want to assist individuals can be higher fulfilled within the discipline of counseling. She pursued her Masters in Scientific Psychological Well being Counseling from Adler College. She has labored in quite a lot of settings with youngsters, adults, and households. She has a particular curiosity in serving the ASD neighborhood, belonging to the Autism Speaks Younger Professionals group, and is a sought-after speaker and volunteer.
Affected person Age Vary: 6 years and up
Workplace Location: Deerfield and Chicago
LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER
Philosophy of Care:
Lauren Caldwell enjoys serving to individuals with nervousness overcome the challenges they face, instructing them resilience in dealing with their fears. She values the significance of constructing a robust therapeutic relationship along with her sufferers, using each evidenced-based speak remedy and skills-based remedy to create and keep this partnership. She additionally believes within the significance of household involvement in remedy, working intently with mother and father and family members to assist their member of the family.
Particular Pursuits:
Via using Cognitive Conduct Remedy (CBT), Dialectical Conduct Remedy (DBT), and Acceptance and Dedication Remedy (ACT), Lauren has expertise in serving to sufferers handle and overcome nervousness issues, basic nervousness dysfunction (GAD), college refusal, melancholy, shallowness points, and motivation points.
When not within the workplace, Lauren enjoys spending her free time touring, being outdoor, cheering on her favourite sports activities groups, and being round animals (particularly canines!).
Expertise and Coaching:
Lauren obtained her Masters of Social Work on the College of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She has labored efficiently with adolescents and households from a spread of backgrounds in faculties, hospitals, and PHP/IOP settings and is educated in CBT, DBT, and ACT modalities. Lauren is licensed in each Illinois and Tennessee and is ready to present telecounseling to Tennessee residents from our Illinois workplaces.
Affected person Age Vary: 6 years and up
Workplace Location: Deerfield
LICENSED SOCIAL WORKER
Philosophy of Care:
Tammy enjoys serving to her purchasers and their households face their fears step-by-step to allow them to stay with confidence and peace of thoughts. She understands how tough it’s studying to face your fears, or serving to your baby discover ways to face their fears. Utilizing heat, good humor, and teamwork she helps you and your loved ones rework the way in which you consider and react to nervousness. She loves instructing her sufferers how one can overcome nervousness to allow them to be taught the abilities that create resilience, grit, and an enjoyment of journey. Tammy is skilled at serving to even probably the most reluctant purchasers acquire motivation and confidence to beat their nervousness. She particularly enjoys working with difficult purchasers who want further assist following by means of with remedy, corresponding to individuals on the autism spectrum, individuals with persona issues, reluctant teenagers, and individuals who endure from emotion dysregulation.
Tammy is on the market to work in individual and by way of teletherapy to accommodate your schedule. She understands the dilemma of being a busy mum or dad, teen, or employee with many schedule calls for. One among her priorities helps mother and father and important others discover ways to change into an efficient nervousness coach.
Particular Pursuits:
Tammy works efficiently with youngsters, adolescents, and adults to beat all varieties of nervousness together with social nervousness, Generalized Nervousness Dysfunction, particular phobias, and OCD. As well as she has experience in treating autism spectrum dysfunction with accompanying nervousness, persona issues, emotion dysregulation, and substance abuse.
Tammy loves hanging out along with her household and buddies. In her free time, you could find her boating within the Northwoods, exploring new native eateries, and cheering on the Inexperienced Bay Packers.
Expertise and Coaching:
Tammy Madrigrano obtained her Masters of Social Work from the College of Southern California. She is a licensed grief counselor and labored for a few years at a nationally acknowledged PHP/IOP remedy heart often known as a frontrunner in evidence-based remedies for nervousness issues, substance abuse, and borderline persona dysfunction. She has intensive expertise offering dialectical conduct remedy (DBT) in addition to coaching in Cognitive Behavioral Remedy (CBT) and Non-violent Disaster Intervention (NCI). Along with medical work, she has labored in non-profit settings, outpatient clinics, and dependancy remedy facilities.
Affected person Age Vary: 5 years and up
Workplace Location: Deerfield
LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER
Philosophy of Care:
“I really like having the ability to stroll the trail of progress with purchasers, main them to do all types of issues they by no means thought attainable. My objective is to empower purchasers to handle conditions on their very own, and to really feel ready, based mostly on our work, to efficiently strategy conditions with new abilities and confidence. It’s so rewarding to watch purchasers’ enthusiasm as doorways start to open and alternatives come up that enable them to thrive.”
Partaking and all the way down to earth, Sarah Peterman approaches purchasers with compassion, perception, and a robust dose of humor. She simply establishes rapport with purchasers of all ages, together with youngsters as younger as 5 years previous, creating a peaceful and supportive setting for profitable remedy. Shoppers develop an understanding of the boundaries which might be holding them again, as Sarah teaches them to problem anxious pondering and modify behaviors. She gently pushes purchasers to interact in conditions that they’ve been avoiding, rising tolerance for nervousness and serving to them to acknowledge triggers and strategy circumstances in a brand new, extra useful manner. As an skilled clinician, Sarah is inventive to find methods round every individual’s distinctive boundaries, and personalizes methods that inspire change. She acknowledges the significance of involving mother and father when working with youngsters, and offers steerage on boundaries, limits, and communication that facilitates enchancment and progress of their youngsters. Sarah persistently helps her purchasers overcome nervousness and obtain constructive outcomes, instructing new abilities and methods that enhance self-confidence and end in an improved high quality of life.
Particular Pursuits:
Sarah has success in serving to youngsters and adults overcome all varieties of nervousness, together with OCD, social nervousness, panic assaults, phobias, trichotillomania, and dermatillomania. She makes a speciality of using Cognitive Behavioral Remedy (CBT), Publicity and Response Prevention (ERP), Dialectical Behavioral Remedy (DBT), and mindfulness, together with leisure practices. She relates effectively to youngsters and adults, tailoring age-appropriate remedy for kids and adolescents that may embody play, music, and rapport-building.
An animal lover, Sarah enjoys spending time along with her canine and cat. To chill out, you’ll typically discover her studying and listening to music. She particularly loves hanging out along with her superior nephews.
Expertise and Coaching:
Sarah is an skilled licensed medical social employee, having labored in quite a lot of inpatient and outpatient settings in addition to in personal observe. She obtained her Masters of Social Work from the College of Illinois, Chicago, Jane Addams Faculty of Social Work. She has obtained intensive coaching in Cognitive Behavioral Remedy (CBT) and has labored with purchasers battling all types of tension issues. As well as, she has experience in treating Borderline Persona Dysfunction and purchasers who battle with emotion regulation. She is a member of the Nervousness and Despair Affiliation of America (ADAA) and the Worldwide OCD Basis (IOCDF).
Affected person Age Vary: 5 years and up
Workplace Location: Deerfield
Description
Insomnia happens when somebody is unable to readily go to sleep or keep asleep. Typically occasions, worrying about sleep high quality and the flexibility to operate whereas awake combines with the results of sleep deprivation to intrude with on a regular basis life. Fear about sleep high quality and deprivation is a major think about insomnia. The presence of tension issues or temper issues also can end in insomnia. The excellent news is that insomnia is very treatable utilizing cognitive behavioral remedy (CBT), the tactic repeatedly proven to work in analysis research. The Nervousness Therapy Heart employees will work with you to handle the underlying causes of your insomnia and provide help to, or your baby, be taught to sleep higher once more. Your sleep can enhance and you may be taught to really feel assured about going to sleep and staying asleep.
Therapy
In case your insomnia is persistent and never associated to a medical situation, you might profit from the remedy we offer on the Nervousness Therapy Heart of Better Chicago. CBT for insomnia is a singular strategy that our therapists are educated in particularly to deal with insomnia, grounded within the science of sleep. We are going to work with you utilizing a mix of cognitive and behavioral strategies corresponding to leisure coaching, mindfulness coaching, sleep hygiene enchancment and reducing fear.
For Extra Data
Nervousness and Despair Affiliation of America – Sleep Issues
Description
Autism Spectrum Dysfunction (ASD) contains Autism, Aspergers’ Syndrome and Pervasive Developmental Dysfunction. Kids, teenagers and adults with ASD expertise difficulties with nervousness that may embody extreme fear, anticipatory nervousness, phobic reactions to feared conditions, sounds or sensations and social nervousness. Problem with studying the social setting and issue with being versatile could make it very arduous for these with ASD to deal with modifications in routine, friendships and every day challenges. Incessantly youngsters and youths with ASD expertise college refusal, oppositional conduct, failure to launch and failure to make and maintain buddies regardless of having the ability to make good grades. Many youngsters with Autism Spectrum Dysfunction have a number of varieties of nervousness issues. Analysis has demonstrated that nervousness issues exacerbate the social difficulties and different useful impairments brought on by ASD. Nervousness might worsen throughout adolescence, as younger individuals face an more and more complicated social milieu and infrequently change into extra conscious of their variations and interpersonal difficulties.
Therapy
The employees on the Nervousness Therapy Heart will work with you, your baby, teen or younger grownup to construct particular person abilities in nervousness administration, flexibility, social notion, social abilities and self-management so {that a} richer and extra impartial life is feasible. We’re dedicated to serving to youngsters, teenagers and adults with ASD to stay a full productive life free of tension. Our crew will work with college employees, IEP groups, school employees and assist companies to create a neighborhood of assist for long run success.
For Extra Data
Autism Speaks Inc.
Nationwide Institute of Psychological Well being – What Is Autism?
Description
Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurological dysfunction characterised by repetitive, stereotyped, involuntary actions and vocalizations known as tics. Tic dysfunction is identified when a affected person has both a repetitive or motor tic. A few of the extra frequent easy tics embody eye blinking, facial grimacing, shoulder shrugging, and head or shoulder jerking. Easy vocal tics may embody repetitive throat-clearing, coughing, sniffing, or grunting sounds. Advanced tics are distinct, coordinated patterns of actions involving a number of muscle teams corresponding to facial grimacing mixed with a head twist and shoulder shrug. Mother and father of kids with TS or tic dysfunction often fear in regards to the social impression of TS or tics for his or her baby. Concern about repetitive movement accidents and the unwanted effects of medicines can also be frequent. TS and tic dysfunction additionally co-occurs with Consideration Deficit Dysfunction, obsessive compulsive dysfunction and oppositional behaviors which may make parenting a toddler with these issues very difficult.
Therapy
The vast majority of youngsters and youths with TS and tic dysfunction will outgrow their tics by the point they attain their mid twenties, however life previous to that point may be painful and irritating for everybody. The employees at The Nervousness Therapy Heart of Better Chicago provides the newest cognitive behavioral interventions designed to assist youngsters and youths suppress their tics utilizing complete behavioral intervention for tics (CBIT), assertion coaching and bullying prevention coaching. We wish any affected person with tics to really feel self-confident and able to face the world in order that they will categorical their skills and items no matter their TS or tics.
For Extra Data
Tourette Syndrome Affiliation
Nationwide Institute of Neurological Issues and Stroke – Tourette Syndrome Reality Sheet
American Academy of Pediatrics – Tics, Tourette Syndrome and OCD
Description
Separation Nervousness Dysfunction happens when a toddler fears bodily separation from a caretaker and experiences nervousness and fear each time anticipated separation may happen. They could fear about one thing horrible occurring to the caretaker whereas they’re aside. Kids with separation nervousness dysfunction protest goodbyes at any leave-taking, corresponding to going to daycare, college or to mattress. They often cry and plead to stick with the caretaker, regardless of apparently having fun with college or daycare. Kids with separation nervousness dysfunction are sometimes unable to sleep alone. Kids with extra extreme separation nervousness might insist on being inside contact or sight of members of the family. Adults may additionally expertise separation nervousness dysfunction.
Therapy
Profitable remedy of separation nervousness dysfunction includes publicity remedy that regularly teaches your baby that they will tolerate and luxuriate in separations corresponding to going to daycare, college or to mattress and might grasp their nervousness about being alone. Imaginal publicity is used to assist overcome scary ideas about separation. Caretakers are taught how one can assist their baby change into assured about separation and rising up.
For Extra Data
Nervousness and Despair Affiliation of America – What Mother and father Ought to Know About Separation Nervousness
Mayo Clinic – Separation Nervousness Dysfunction
Psychology Immediately – Separation Nervousness
Description
Faculty refusal generally is a symptom of many various issues, together with an nervousness dysfunction, melancholy, poor social abilities or educational difficulties. Nervousness issues are the most typical purpose that elementary aged youngsters refuse college. Many youngsters who refuse college complain of feeling sick moderately than of feeling anxious and infrequently really feel sick day by day. Mother and father typically have interaction in fruitless medical testing for GI issues or different maladies solely to be advised that there isn’t any diagnosable or treatable situation. Kids and youths who have interaction in class refusal typically discover it most tough to return to high school after lengthy holidays, 3-day weekends or reputable absence because of sickness.
Therapy
Therapy for varsity refusal includes appropriate analysis of the underlying drawback(s) adopted by publicity remedy that returns the kid to high school as rapidly as attainable. Whether or not panic dysfunction, agoraphobia, OCD, social nervousness, well being nervousness or a extra complicated set of issues is inflicting college refusal, our crew of specialists will develop a plan with your loved ones and college system that helps your baby overcome the reason for their college refusal. When vital, we are going to come to your own home to assist escort your baby to high school in order that they will return to profitable residing.
For Extra Data
Nervousness and Despair Affiliation of America – Faculty Refusal
Description
Physique dysmorphic dysfunction (BDD) distorts an individual’s notion a few particular facet of their look and causes them beautiful disgrace in regards to the imagined defect. It’s not a dysfunction of vainness, wherein an individual takes nice pleasure in focusing upon their look. It’s a dysfunction of agonizing disgrace and despair about look. Those that have BDD focus upon a selected characteristic or minor defect of their look and consider themselves to be severely disfigured and distracting to others. They really feel satisfied that their imagined ugliness is apparent to others regardless of the makes an attempt of household and buddies to reassure them in any other case. Disgrace and disgust about their misperceived ugliness may end up in social avoidance and isolation, repeated plastic surgical procedures or beauty procedures and extreme melancholy and suicidal ideas. Physique dysmorphic dysfunction can focus upon any facet of look, together with the form of assorted physique elements, hair or complexion. Sufferers with BDD may additionally take nice dangers with a view to their look by looking for out drugs, remedies or surgical procedures that aren’t underneath the supervision of licensed or well-qualified professionals.
Therapy
Therapy for physique dysmorphic dysfunction consists of cognitive behavioral remedy and drugs. Cognitive remedy helps sufferers be taught to acknowledge that their dysfunction is one among misperception and misplaced focus upon explicit facets of their look. They’re taught how one can regularly lower efforts to look at and camouflage or cover their look. Publicity remedy helps sufferers regularly resume regular actions that they prevented because of concern of getting their misperceived defect change into noticeable. BDD victims are additionally taught how one can extra accurately view their physique in its entirety and how one can construct significant relationships regardless of their BDD.
The Nervousness Therapy Heart employees has expertise in treating physique dysmorphic dysfunction. We provide a compassionate step-by-step program to assist those that endure from physique dysmorphic dysfunction be taught to stay their lives freed from painful preoccupation with their look. We provide house visits, or particular scheduling of classes to permit for privateness, to these sufferers who might initially really feel unable to return to our workplaces because of their BDD.
For Extra Data
BDD Basis
Los Angeles Physique Dysmorphic Dysfunction & Physique Picture Clinic
Description
Many youngsters, teenagers and adults stay in every day terror about being severely unwell, and even terminally unwell, when no signs of great sickness exist. They misread regular bodily sensations or bodily signs as being harmful and life-threatening. Reassurance from buddies, spouses, diagnostic testing or reassurance from well being care professionals might present short-term reduction, however the fears return anyway. These sufferers might make many pointless visits to the physician. They could repeatedly endure pointless medical testing and procedures. Paradoxically, some with these health-related issues might find yourself avoiding any contact with well being care suppliers for concern that they obtain unhealthy information.
Therapy
Therapy for well being nervousness contains cognitive remedy to be taught to tolerate uncertainty about well being standing and bodily sensations, publicity remedy and imaginal flooding to be taught to tolerate feared ideas about loss of life and sickness. Interoceptive publicity is used to assist sufferers be taught to tolerate regular modifications in bodily sensations.
Workers at The Nervousness Therapy Heart of Better Chicago have specialised expertise in serving to sufferers overcome well being nervousness in order that they will be taught to get pleasure from their good well being and cease fearing poor well being, incapacity or terminal sickness. Our crew helps sufferers be taught when it’s applicable to contact their well being care suppliers and when to hunt out health-related data. We can even work along with your well being care supplier to assist them know how one can greatest provide help to when your well being fears change into problematic.
For Extra Data
Mayo Clinic – Sickness Nervousness Dysfunction
Description
Trichotillomania, compulsive non-cosmetic hair pulling, and Dermatillomania, compulsive pores and skin selecting, are two of the numerous Physique-Targeted Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs), wherein an individual could cause hurt or harm to themselves or their look. Different BFRBs embody biting the insides of the cheek and nail-biting. Compulsive hair pulling leads to noticeable hair loss, or bald patches. Hair may be pulled from any web site on the physique, with areas which might be most simply reached being the almost certainly websites. Teenagers and adults who are suffering from hair pulling expertise intense disgrace and misery. They could keep away from actions that they concern will reveal their hair loss corresponding to being exterior on windy days, standing close to individuals taller than themselves, train courses, or going to hairdressers. Those that endure from trichotillomania typically incorrectly concern that hair pulling should point out that they’re particularly “sick” or “self-injurious” as a result of they’re unable to cease. Scientists and therapists who’re acquainted with hair pulling and pores and skin selecting know that these behaviors are a behavior that’s most likely brought on by a genetic predisposition that by chance turns into self-reinforcing.
Different body-focused repetitive behaviors corresponding to compulsive pores and skin selecting, compulsive nail-biting, cheek biting and nostril selecting are similar to trichotillomania of their impact on the household and the sufferer’s self-image. They typically co-occur with trichotillomania. These issues are understood to be much like trichotillomania and the identical remedy strategy that’s used for trichotillomania is used for these issues. Many scientists at the moment are starting to categorise this group of issues in a class of their very own, body-focused repetitive issues.
Therapy
Therapy of trichotillomania and different body-focused repetitive behaviors includes detecting and defining the affected person’s particular person profile for pulling or selecting. Since no two sufferers with these issues are alike, a personalized plan of behavioral and cognitive methods have to be developed. These methods are utilized to regularly dismantle the automated chain of occasions that results in pulling or selecting and to switch it with extra adaptive behaviors. The objective of remedy is to attain both a considerable lower in pulling or selecting, or abstinence from pulling and selecting, in order that the affected person not has to really feel embarrassed about hair loss and concealment of hair loss.
The employees at The Nervousness Therapy Heart of Better Chicago will provide help to, or your baby, overcome body-focused repetitive behaviors one step at a time. We wish to assist cease the cycle of pulling or selecting so that you just, or your baby, can really feel stuffed with confidence and wonder.
For Extra Data
The TLC Basis for Physique-Targeted Repetitive Behaviors
StopPicking.com – On-line Behavioral Program
American Academy of Youngster & Adolescent Psychiatry – Hair Pulling – Info for Households
Description
Particular phobias happen when somebody develops a sudden irrational concern of a scenario or object that causes intense concern and avoidance. Solely about 30% of those that endure from particular phobias have a traumatic onset, corresponding to fearing canines after being bitten by a canine. For many, the concern simply happens spontaneously throughout childhood. Particular phobias may be about any scenario or be related to any object. Examples of typical phobias are concern of heights, needles, flying, enclosed areas, dental procedures, spiders, snakes or individuals carrying masks. To be able to be identified, the phobia has to intrude with the affected person’s capability to do vital every day duties or causes them to plan their life round avoiding issues that set off their concern.
Therapy
Publicity remedy is the remedy of selection for particular phobias and may end up in a fast and lasting treatment. Publicity remedy can happen in weekly classes, in intensive every day classes, or in a single session. Some particular phobias may be efficiently handled in a single a number of hours lengthy session when the affected person has the dedication to beat their concern quickly. Publicity remedy includes regularly working towards the conditions that provoke the phobia till nervousness subsides.
The Nervousness Therapy Heart of Better Chicago employees helps sufferers efficiently observe the conditions that phobias makes tough, whether or not it’s driving, flying, driving elevators, or finishing medical or dental procedures. Workers at The Nervousness Therapy Heart of Better Chicago have specialised expertise in serving to sufferers overcome medical or dental phobias in order that sufferers can efficiently and confidently full medical assessments, procedures, surgical procedures or vaccinations that they’ve been avoiding.
For Extra Data
Nervousness and Despair Affiliation of America – Particular Phobias
Nationwide Alliance on Psychological Sickness – Particular Phobias
Description
Those that endure from social nervousness dysfunction really feel extra than simply shy. Social nervousness dysfunction happens when somebody feels embarrassment, disgrace or humiliation as a result of they concern that others are noticing them in social conditions and judging them. Generally merely being seen may end up in nervousness assaults. Kids, teenagers and adults might blush simply, tremble, have panic assaults or cry when in social conditions that make them uncomfortable. Social nervousness dysfunction can have an effect on only a few conditions corresponding to concern of public talking or concern of utilizing the general public restroom (known as paruresis). Social nervousness dysfunction also can have an effect on nearly all social conditions, making it painful for somebody to work together with all however their closest buddy and speedy household. Social nervousness dysfunction may end up in avoidance that makes attending courses, purchasing, relationship, job searching or greeting others at work appear to be insurmountable duties.
Social nervousness dysfunction in youngsters also can end in selective mutism. Selective mutism happens when a toddler or grownup has the flexibility to talk effectively, however is unable to speak in a standard talking voice in conditions exterior their consolation zone. Kids and adults with selective mutism might whisper or be unable to speak with various individuals because of excessive nervousness.
Therapy
The Nervousness Therapy Heart of Better Chicago employees get pleasure from serving to sufferers construct social confidence and actual life abilities that result in confidence and social success. Cognitive behavioral remedy typically mixed with medicine, is the very best remedy to alleviate social nervousness dysfunction. Cognitive remedy helps problem the misperceived expectations from others. Publicity remedy helps sufferers grasp and benefit from the social world. Assertion coaching helps sufferers discover ways to deal with life’s inevitable awkward moments with out having to dread them. When wanted, social abilities coaching in dialog, job interviews, public talking, relationship and battle administration helps sufferers to really feel effectively ready to handle life.
For Extra Data
Nervousness and Despair Affiliation of America – Social Nervousness Dysfunction
Description
Obsessive compulsive dysfunction (OCD) produces intrusive ideas or photos that trigger nervousness. The individual then engages in behaviors or ideas to scale back the nervousness, known as compulsions. Most teenagers and adults acknowledge that their obsessions don’t make sense, however really feel compelled to do their compulsions anyway with a view to really feel much less anxious or uncomfortable. Kids as younger as 2 years previous can exhibit the signs of OCD. A few of the extra frequent types of OCD are:
- fears of contamination with compulsive washing or cleansing
- misery about dysfunction or lack of symmetry with arranging and ordering compulsions
- concern of harming others or oneself with compulsive checking and reassurance looking for
- perfectionism and “simply so” rituals
- intrusive sexual, gay, blasphemous or horrific ideas with avoidance and reassurance looking for prayers, confession compulsions, or ritualistic non secular behaviors
- magic numbers, colours or sequences of motion with superstitious avoidance
Therapy
Efficient remedy of OCD includes publicity with response prevention remedy, cognitive remedy and attainable pharmacotherapy, particularly when the signs are extra extreme. The Nervousness Therapy Heart of Better Chicago makes a speciality of providing intensive fast remedy of OCD by assembly every day within the locations the place OCD disrupts your life. Workers will prepare you to regularly face the conditions and ideas that provoke your OCD whereas studying how to not reply with rituals, compulsions, reassurance looking for or avoidance. We are going to accompany you into the conditions that OCD makes tough and provide help to discover ways to get used to it with out giving in to the OCD. In case your OCD hinders a lot of your every day life, then we are going to provide help to to endure an intensive remedy program that includes 2-7sessions per week which will final a number of hours at a time. Analysis exhibits that this gives you the very best probability to beat OCD.
For Extra Data
Worldwide OCD Basis
Nervousness and Despair Affiliation of America – Obsessive Compulsive Dysfunction
Description
Generalized nervousness dysfunction (GAD) causes persistent fear and persistent signs of anxious arousal, corresponding to muscle aches, insomnia, complications, stomachaches, feeling drained or mildly unwell or feeling chronically stressed and irritable. GAD often co-occurs with different nervousness or temper issues. Typically those that fear consider that their fear, although bothersome, might have some worth in defending their very own security, or the security of others, or in sustaining excessive requirements or schoolwork or job efficiency. Kids, teenagers and adults with GAD often try to hunt reassurance from others however with no obvious finish to the concern. Mother and father, buddies and spouses of those that have GAD often really feel that they’re being hounded by reassurance looking for.
Therapy
Profitable remedy of GAD contains cognitive remedy to be taught to tolerate uncertainty, successfully clear up issues and reduce perfectionism. Publicity remedy and imaginal flooding helps sufferers be taught to embrace uncertainty, to interact in efficient drawback fixing and to scale back perfectionism. If persistent bodily arousal makes it inconceivable for a affected person to chill out, then leisure coaching and mindfulness coaching will likely be taught to assist restore the physique’s regular resting state. Referrals for yoga and therapeutic massage remedy could also be particularly useful for sufferers whose our bodies are chronically sore from the persistent anxious hyperarousal related to fear.
Workers at The Nervousness Therapy Heart of Better Chicago have specialised expertise in serving to sufferers be taught to cease and escape the infinite cycle of fear and reassurance looking for. Our objective is to assist worriers be taught to stay within the current in order that they will chill out and luxuriate in their every day lives.
For Extra Data
Nervousness and Despair Affiliation of America – Generalized Nervousness Dysfunction
Nationwide Institute of Psychological Well being – Generalized Nervousness Dysfunction
Description
Publish Traumatic Stress Dysfunction (PTSD) outcomes when somebody has personally skilled or witnessed a life threatening scenario. Examples of traumas are auto accidents, fires, bodily or sexual assault, or surviving an excessive climate occasion corresponding to a twister. Those that endure from PTSD discover that they’re unable to return to regular functioning after an preliminary adjustment interval of two months. They expertise intrusive ideas, recollections or nightmares, an exaggerated startle response, irritability, insomnia, and nervousness assaults when reminded of the trauma. They could additionally keep away from any reminders of the trauma, corresponding to being unable to drive after an auto accident or being unable to be round canines after being bitten by a canine. Victims may additionally discover that they really feel numb and unable to expertise affection or happiness.
Therapy
Workers at The Nervousness Therapy Heart of Better Chicago have obtained coaching from the highest worldwide consultants within the discipline of PTSD. The most effective remedy for PTSD contains extended publicity wherein the individual learns to face their recollections and actual life reminders of the trauma till they not really feel anxious. Cognitive behavioral remedy helps to revive a wholesome rewarding life by enhancing sleep, overcoming nightmares and rebuilding belief in self and others. The Nervousness Therapy Heart of Better Chicago employees will provide help to or your baby re-establish a safe and cozy life.
For Extra Data
Nervousness and Despair Affiliation of America – Publish Traumatic Stress Dysfunction
Worldwide Society for Traumatic Stress Research
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
Philosophy of Care:
Dr. Nina Pacholec’s patient-centered strategy to care creates a respectful and responsive setting wherein every individual can acquire confidence in managing their nervousness and be taught the instruments to beat it. She addresses every affected person with caring, understanding the tough challenges that nervousness creates, and makes use of evidence-based strategies to help every individual in figuring out methods to face these challenges efficiently. Utilizing a collaborative strategy and a humorousness, Dr. Pacholec develops individualized remedy plans to assist sufferers cut back their signs and obtain their targets. She additionally provides distance counseling for Illinois residents by way of safe videoconferencing. Distance counseling provides a handy various for sufferers who discover it tough to fulfill with or journey to a therapist and might flexibly accommodate affected person schedules.
For busy professionals, Dr. Pacholec is accepted to observe teletherapy underneath PsyPact in collaborating states and might present remedy classes by way of cellphone and video when applicable, based mostly on a consumer’s analysis.
Particular Pursuits:
Dr. Pacholec efficiently helps youngsters and adults handle all varieties of nervousness with explicit curiosity in social nervousness, Generalized Nervousness Dysfunction (GAD), efficiency nervousness, OCD, and phobias. She can also be expert in treating trauma in youngsters and adolescents. She makes use of Cognitive Behavioral Remedy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Remedy (DBT), Publicity and Response Prevention (ERP), and mindfulness in her remedy.
When not within the workplace, she loves all issues outdoor and can typically make time for mountaineering, exploring new locations, and attempting new issues. An animal lover with a canine and two cats, she additionally enjoys spending time along with her household and cooking up scrumptious issues to eat!
Expertise and Coaching:
Dr. Pacholec obtained her grasp’s and doctorate from Palo Alto College in California with a Youngster and Household emphasis. She accomplished her pre- and postdoctoral internship at WellSpan Philhaven Behavioral Well being in Pennsylvania and continued working there after commencement as a working towards psychologist for a number of years. She has intensive coaching and expertise in CBT and most lately was a supervisor for the internship program at her earlier place. She additionally has expertise in DBT-informed care and loved facilitating DBT-informed abilities teams for adolescents and parenting teams based mostly on the Parenting Your Robust-Willed Youngster evidence-based protocol. Dr. Pacholec has extra coaching in trauma-focused CBT and lately accomplished specialised coaching in OCD from the distinguished Conduct Remedy Coaching Institute (BTTI) by means of the Worldwide OCD Basis (IOCDF).
Dr. Pacholec is a Diplomate and Licensed CBT Therapist by means of the Academy of Cognitive Remedy (A-CBT), and a member of the American Psychological Affiliation (APA).
Affected person Age Vary: 4 years and up
Location: Springfield
Cookie is a crucial a part of the Nervousness Therapy Heart employees. She loves working with individuals and brings a substantial amount of enthusiasm to her job as an publicity therapist. Her small dimension and pleasant nature make it simple for individuals who concern canines to observe overcoming their anxieties.
Cookie is a feminine “Teddy Bear” canine, a cross-breed between a Bichon Frise and a Shih Tzu. She could be very candy and places our purchasers comfortable. She assists our human employees in working with sufferers who’ve fears about canines and animals. A faithful companion, she additionally assists youngsters with autism spectrum dysfunction and different very shy sufferers with socialization abilities.
We’re grateful to have such a candy, calm animal to assist our sufferers overcome their fears.
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
Philosophy of Care:
Shoppers of all ages discover Dr. Dustin Siegel to be heat, empathetic, and approachable, as he helps to establish and resolve troublesome ideas and behaviors. Therapy begins with an evaluation geared toward studying about your issues and the way they’re impacting your life. Utilizing a collaborative strategy, Dr. Siegel defines particular targets and develops an individualized remedy plan geared toward lowering signs and enhancing general temper. He makes use of Cognitive Behavioral Remedy (CBT) and Publicity and Response Prevention (ERP) to show you new methods to reply to anxious and depressive ideas and emotions. Remedy with Dr. Siegel lets you stay a richer, much less anxiety-driven life, and to raised handle anxious ideas and behaviors each time they come up.
Dr. Siegel additionally provides distance counseling for Illinois residents by way of safe videoconferencing. Distance counseling provides a handy various for sufferers who discover it tough to fulfill with or journey to a therapist and might flexibly accommodate affected person schedules.
Particular Pursuits:
Dr. Siegel efficiently treats all varieties of nervousness issues together with Social Nervousness, Generalized Nervousness Dysfunction (GAD), Panic Dysfunction, Obsessive Compulsive Dysfunction (OCD), and particular Phobias. Typically, this contains serving to purchasers handle temper issues, corresponding to melancholy and bipolar dysfunction, which often seem along with different nervousness issues. He relates significantly effectively to varsity college students and younger professionals, offering invaluable assist throughout difficult life cycle transitions for each men and women.
Dr. Siegel has a ardour for serving to purchasers with Tourette Syndrome and different tic issues. He makes use of Complete Behavioral Interventions for Tics (CBIT), Behavior Reversal Remedy (HRT), and different strategies which have been confirmed efficient in lowering the severity of tics.
Along with his medical work, he enjoys spending time exploring town, cooking and attempting new meals, and pursuing points associated to social justice and the stigma of psychological sickness.
Expertise and Coaching:
Dr. Siegel obtained his Psy.D. in Scientific Psychology from the College of Hartford. He accomplished his doctoral internship at Counseling and Psychological Companies of Clemson College in Clemson, SC the place he labored with a culturally numerous inhabitants of faculty college students presenting with a variety of emotional and psychological difficulties. Dr. Siegel has obtained intensive specialised coaching from the distinguished OCD Conduct Remedy Coaching Institute (BTTI) in addition to the Tourette Syndrome Conduct Remedy Institute. He’s a member of the American Psychological Affiliation (APA), the Nervousness and Despair Affiliation of America (ADAA), the Worldwide OCD Basis (IOCDF), and the Tourette Syndrome Affiliation (TSA).
Affected person Age Vary:
Ages 5 years and Up, Adolescents, and Adults
Workplace Location:
Chicago and Deerfield
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
Philosophy of Care:
Dr. Julieanne Pojas’ life motto is: “Do one factor that scares you probably the most.” She teaches her sufferers to stay a lifetime of confidence and resilience moderately than concern. Dr. Pojas believes in creating a relationship that’s collaborative, non-judgmental, supportive, and emphasizes every affected person’s strengths. She offers evidence-based interventions to focus on every people’ signs. These remedies end in sufferers who’re capable of enhance extra rapidly.
Particular Pursuits:
Dr. Pojas’ particular medical pursuits embody nervousness issues, Obsessive Compulsive Dysfunction, Hoarding Dysfunction, and Consideration Deficit Hyperactivity Dysfunction. She is especially expert at working with households and enjoys serving to younger adults work by means of life transitions. Dr. Pojas can also be captivated with lowering the stigma of psychological sickness among the many Asian American inhabitants.
Dr. Pojas presently leads the Buried in Treasures Workshop, a CBT-based workshop that teaches abilities to assist individuals with Hoarding Dysfunction overcome the litter of their lives. She additionally provides coaching to members of the family of hoarders by means of the Household-As-Motivators program. This program teaches the chums and households of people with Hoarding Dysfunction how one can strategy the difficulty with their liked one and encourage them to hunt the assistance they want.
In her spare time, Dr. Pojas enjoys spending time along with her household, volunteering, scrapbooking, and watching scary motion pictures. She is understood for her inquisitive demeanor and is at all times prepared to attempt one thing new – whether or not it’s a new kind of meals, studying a brand new recipe, or attempting out a brand new train class. Within the winter time, Dr. Pojas is both ice skating or cheering on her favourite soccer crew – the Inexperienced Bay Packers!
Expertise and Coaching:
Dr. Pojas obtained her doctorate and masters’ diploma in medical psychology from Midwestern College in Downers Grove, Illinois. As a licensed medical psychologist, she specializes within the remedy of tension and associated circumstances. She is educated in cognitive-behavioral remedy and publicity response prevention. Dr. Pojas has obtained specialised coaching and certification from the Conduct Remedy Coaching Institute (BTTI) on the Worldwide OCD Basis (IOCDF).
Dr. Pojas has expertise working in quite a lot of medical settings in Illinois and California treating a culturally numerous inhabitants. She believes in offering culturally applicable remedy. She has completed a number of talks coaching psychological well being professionals and educating mother and father about psychological well being subjects. Dr. Pojas is a member of the Nervousness and Despair Affiliation of American (ADAA), the IOCDF, and the Asian American Psychological Affiliation (AAPA).
Affected person Age Vary:
Ages 5 years and Up
Workplace Location:
Deerfield
LICENSED CLINICAL PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR
Philosophy of Care:
Spend a couple of minutes with Christina Maxwell, and her real spirit and zest for all times change into clear. Empathetic and inspiring, she has a constructive strategy with purchasers and rapidly places individuals comfortable. She operates as an lively therapist, using homework and dealing on sensible options whereas instructing sufferers how one can handle their nervousness. She is ready to rapidly set up rapport with youngsters and adolescents and understands the necessity for fogeys to have instruments and steerage in greatest responding to their anxious baby. She offers recommendations and prompts for quite a lot of conditions and works intently with mother and father and family members to assist their anxious member of the family. Using mindfulness and compassion-focused remedy strategies, her objective is to give you the flexibility to efficiently handle conditions by yourself.
Particular Pursuits:
Christina works with adults and youngsters as younger as 5 and makes use of her pure humor to ascertain rapport with youngsters and adolescents. She is most interested by serving to sufferers be taught to handle their very own nervousness and OCD. Mother and father are sometimes stunned at how prepared their youngsters are to work with and open up to Christina. As well as, she has expertise with nervousness, obsessive-compulsive spectrum, PTSD, and temper issues.
Exterior the workplace, Christina and her husband are busy managing their very own brood of three younger boys. After 11 years in Boston, she is appreciating the sights of Chicago and the slower tempo of the Midwest. A well being fanatic, she relaxes with a every day run or yoga class and enjoys studying and touring.
Expertise and Coaching
Christina earned her Masters of Arts Diploma in Counseling Psychology from Boston School. She labored in quite a lot of medical settings within the Boston space, the place she supplied particular person and household remedy to youngsters, adolescents, and adults. As she educated in Cognitive Behavioral Remedy (CBT), she discovered that an lively, engaged remedy strategy resulted in a extra responsive and sustainable change. She obtained additional coaching in Trauma-Targeted CBT, in addition to a certification in Guardian Administration Coaching. Christina has accomplished specialised coaching in Pediatric OCD from the distinguished Conduct Remedy Coaching Institute (BTTI) by means of the Worldwide OCD Basis (IOCDF). She is a member of the Nervousness and Despair Affiliation of America (ADAA) and the IOCDF. Christina is a licensed counselor in each Illinois and Massachusetts and is thus capable of present telecounseling to Massachusetts residents from our Deerfield workplace.
Affected person Age Vary: 5 years and up
Workplace Location: Deerfield
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
Philosophy of Care:
Variety, heat, and supportive, Dr. Brian J. Schmaus approaches sufferers with compassion for the challenges that nervousness has introduced into their lives. He teaches sufferers how one can handle their worries and fears to allow them to discover ways to tolerate uncertainty. By encouraging sufferers to face their fears, he enhances their capability to efficiently handle anxious conditions. When working with youngsters and youths, he typically includes mother and father within the remedy plan by offering steerage and methods that assist their youngsters really feel much less anxious. Dr. Schmaus motivates sufferers of all ages to make constructive modifications of their lives and is most gratified to see the progress sufferers could make when they’re taught the abilities to beat their worries and fears.
For busy professionals, Dr. Schmaus is accepted to observe teletherapy underneath PsyPact in collaborating states and might present remedy classes by way of cellphone and video when applicable, based mostly on a consumer’s analysis.
Particular Pursuits:
Dr. Schmaus is sought out for his experience in working with sufferers with Autism Spectrum Dysfunction. As well as, he works extensively with sufferers with numerous nervousness issues in addition to OCD and associated issues, together with body-focused repetitive behaviors. He efficiently treats many sufferers who’ve complicated signs that different therapists discover tough to deal with.
You’ll typically discover Dr. Schmaus enjoying together with his younger youngsters and watching sporting occasions. He enjoys spending time together with his household and buddies.
Expertise and Coaching:
Dr. Schmaus earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Scientific Psychology from Rosalind Franklin College of Drugs and Science in North Chicago, Illinois. He accomplished his doctoral internship at Vancouver Coastal Well being, the place he labored within the Nervousness Issues Clinic on the College of British Columbia, coaching with main worldwide consultants within the fields of tension and OCD.
Dr. Schmaus presents at nationwide conferences on the remedy of tension and OCD and has additionally authored publications in peer-reviewed journals. He makes a speciality of using evidence-based remedies, together with cognitive behavioral remedy (CBT). He has intensive expertise working with college employees on how one can handle nervousness issues in faculties, together with working with college students with college refusal. He has additionally supervised plenty of graduate college students and postdoctoral fellows within the remedy of tension and associated issues. His skilled affiliations embody the American Psychological Affiliation (APA), the TLC Basis for Physique-Targeted Repetitive Behaviors (TLC), the Worldwide OCD Basis (IOCDF), and the Nervousness and Despair Affiliation of America (ADAA).
Affected person Age Vary: 4 years and up
Workplace Location: Deerfield
PSYCHOTHERAPIST
Philosophy of Care:
Sydney Frattura Kampschroer makes use of her heat and calm demeanor to place purchasers comfortable, making a welcoming setting the place purchasers really feel heard, understood, supported, and empowered. She helps teenagers and adults take away the boundaries to residing the life they need, collaborating with purchasers as they work towards remedy targets collectively. She {couples} the evidence-based observe of cognitive behavioral remedy with an innate perceptiveness and compassion, to establish unhelpful ideas and behaviors, and train purchasers abilities and coping methods to enhance their lives. She works intently with mother and father to supply suggestions on how they will greatest assist their adolescent in remedy. By offering alternatives to observe and be taught exterior of classes, purchasers expertise decreased signs and elevated progress.
Sydney additionally provides digital counseling by way of safe videoconferencing and might flexibly accommodate consumer schedules. Digital counseling provides a handy various for purchasers who are usually not capable of meet in-person for any purpose (e.g., work journey schedule, finding out exterior of Illinois, scheduling limitations, and many others.).
Particular Pursuits:
Sydney works efficiently with adolescents and adults who expertise nervousness, melancholy, obsessions, compulsions, perfectionism, hair-pulling, and alcohol and/or drug use. She is presented at creating rapport with teenagers, and captivated with serving to them to develop and observe lifelong abilities for present and future challenges. She makes a speciality of utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Remedy (CBT) and Publicity and Response Prevention (ERP) to assist purchasers to beat nervousness.
In her free time, you could find Sydney purchasing at native farmers’ markets and baking delicacies in her kitchen. A lifelong canine lover, she additionally likes to spend time with household, buddies, and naturally their canines.
Expertise and Coaching:
Sydney Frattura Kampschroer obtained her Grasp’s of Social Work from Washington College in St. Louis, George Warren Brown Faculty of Social Work. She has been educated in Cognitive Behavioral Remedy (CBT), Extended Publicity Remedy (PE), and Dialectical Conduct Remedy (DBT). She additionally has expertise offering dependancy remedy, understanding the complicated interactions between nervousness and substance use. She has labored in non-profit settings, outpatient clinics, and dependancy remedy facilities.
Affected person Age Vary: Kids and Adults
Workplace Location: Deerfield and Chicago
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
Philosophy of Care:
Dr. Alison Alden approaches her work with heat, flexibility, and delicate humor. Recognizing the unbelievable braveness and power that it could possibly take to beat nervousness, she works intently with sufferers to immediately face the ideas and conditions that scare them and strives to be within the trenches dealing with these conditions alongside them. Utilizing a collaborative, therapeutic relationship, she helps sufferers perceive that investing in arduous work can in the end present reduction from the anxieties that plague them. She can also be delicate to the pressures confronted by working mothers and different professionals, and the world of anxieties that may be unleashed by parenting challenges. Dr. Alden applies research-based, gold normal remedies based mostly on an intensive understanding of the distinctive issues confronted by every particular person. Her final objective is to assist sufferers develop the abilities and understanding to each overcome their present difficulties and higher take care of no matter life might throw at them.
For busy professionals, Dr. Alden is accepted to observe teletherapy underneath PsyPact in collaborating states and might present remedy classes by way of cellphone and video when applicable, based mostly on a consumer’s analysis. She can also be a registered telehealth supplier within the state of Florida; for extra details about Florida telehealth, please go to their web site.
Particular Pursuits:
Dr. Alden enjoys working with sufferers with all nervousness, obsessive-compulsive spectrum, and temper issues. She is especially expert in working with adults and older adolescents and in serving to people sort out social nervousness and panic dysfunction. As well as, she has expertise treating grownup ADHD and difficulties regulating feelings and/or regarding others. Dr. Alden provides cellphone and video classes
Exterior the workplace, Dr. Alden enjoys spending time along with her husband, son, and good buddies. She additionally likes enjoying board video games and is an avid reader and tv fanatic.
Expertise and Coaching:
Dr. Alison Alden earned her Ph.D. from Northwestern College in Evanston, IL, the place she centered on researching and treating nervousness. She additionally accomplished a post-doctoral fellowship at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. She has intensive coaching and expertise in cognitive behavioral remedy for nervousness, OCD, and temper issues, and integrates mindfulness and dialectical conduct remedy (DBT) into her observe, together with Radically Open DBT (RO-DBT). Dr. Alden has printed a number of analysis articles and ebook chapters on nervousness, melancholy, and emotion regulation, and has introduced talks and posters to state and nationwide skilled organizations. She has additionally taught in Northwestern College’s Faculty of Persevering with Research. Dr. Alden is a member of the Nervousness and Despair Affiliation of American (ADAA), and was the recipient of the extremely aggressive ADAA Younger Management award in 2014.
Affected person Age Vary: 8 years and up
Workplace Location: Deerfield
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
Philosophy of Care
Dr. Rahan Ali is an interesting clinician, utilizing an lively, results-oriented strategy with sufferers. His model blends heat, encouragement, and a humorousness, teaching sufferers to handle issues in simpler methods. A dynamic instructor, he makes use of abilities honed throughout a 20 yr medical profession to assist sufferers establish signs, goal areas of issue, and develop particular, achievable targets. He customizes a remedy plan using CBT and different research-proven greatest practices for treating nervousness and different points.
Particular Pursuits:
Dr. Ali focuses on profitable remedy for nervousness issues, together with social nervousness, phobias, obsessive-compulsive dysfunction, and panic. He’s a passionate instructor, and enjoys presenting to the neighborhood and in one-on-one therapeutic conditions. He finds nice satisfaction in empowering his sufferers, as they be taught to face uncomfortable conditions with a brand new sense of self-control and confidence.
In his spare time Dr. Ali likes to learn, hearken to music and spend time with household. As a local Chicagoan, he loves Lake Michigan, Bulls basketball, and building visitors (a kind of isn’t true!). He additionally likes to play piano, particularly when nobody is listening!
Expertise and Coaching:
Dr. Ali earned his Ph.D. in Scientific Psychology from Bowling Inexperienced State College and accomplished his internship at College of Cincinnati, the place he specialised in treating nervousness, melancholy, and trauma. He accomplished a medical fellowship at Northeastern Illinois College and a instructing fellowship at Penn State College. He has labored in quite a few settings with quite a lot of medical populations, and has intensive coaching in cognitive-behavioral and exposure-based remedies. Along with his medical expertise, Dr. Ali additionally taught for a number of years within the psychology departments at College of Pennsylvania and Penn State College, the place he was an award-winning teacher. He recurrently provides displays on nervousness and different psychological well being subjects, and he enjoys educating the general public in addition to coaching different therapists. His skilled affiliations embody the Nervousness and Despair Affiliation of America (ADAA), American Psychological Affiliation (APA), Worldwide OCD Basis (IOCDF), and the Affiliation for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT).
Affected person Age Vary: 6 years and up
Workplace Location: Deerfield
Philosophy of Care:
Dr. Karen Lynn Cassiday empowers sufferers to beat their struggles with nervousness, compulsions, phobias, social nervousness, fear, and melancholy. She approaches every affected person with enthusiasm, persistence, and a eager humorousness, crafting individualized, research-based remedy plans for every individual. Her objective is to make every affected person an skilled at managing their very own nervousness, in order that they will face any future occasion with confidence and braveness. She loves having the ability to giggle and have fun together with sufferers as they overcome their most tough conditions.
For busy professionals, Dr. Cassiday is accepted to observe teletherapy underneath PsyPact in collaborating states and might present remedy classes by way of cellphone and video when applicable, based mostly on a consumer’s analysis.
Particular Pursuits:
Dr. Cassiday is commonly sought out to deal with probably the most difficult sufferers who haven’t had success in different remedy environments. She is especially expert at working with difficult instances of tension issues, younger youngsters, selective mutism, OCD and college refusal. She additionally makes a speciality of working with mother and father. Her expertise as a particular wants mum or dad provides her a singular insider’s perspective, and he or she understands the challenges of balancing work, household, and a toddler’s complicated wants.
Dr. Cassiday is the mom of 5. She credit her blended household with fine-tuning her humorousness and humility. She likes to spend her spare time volunteering in her church and hanging out with buddies. No matter how busy she is, she can not cross up an excellent ebook or nice chocolate!
Expertise and Coaching
Dr. Karen Cassiday obtained her doctorate in Scientific Psychology in 1990 from the Rosalind Franklin U
niversity of Drugs and Science. Nationally acknowledged as an skilled within the analysis and remedy of tension issues in youngsters, teenagers and adults, she has performed intensive analysis into nervousness and is broadly printed. She is the Previous President of the distinguished Nervousness and Despair Affiliation of America (ADAA), and served on the board of Past OCD Chicago. She is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Remedy (A-CBT). As well as, she serves on the school of the Worldwide Obsessive Compulsive Basis Conduct Remedy Institute and on the Rosalind Franklin College of Drugs and Science. A wanted nationwide speaker on tv, radio and at skilled coaching seminars, Dr. Cassiday has appeared as an skilled marketing consultant on Animal Hoarders on TNT and on NBC’s Immediately Present. Her experience has been tapped by means of commentary within the Wall Road Journal, New York Occasions, Chicago Tribune, and quite a few different publications. She is the creator of two books: The No Worries Information to Elevating Your Anxious Youngster: A Handbook to Assist You and Your Anxious Youngster Thrive and Freedom from Well being Nervousness: Perceive and Overcome Obsessive Fear about Your Well being or Somebody Else’s and Discover Peace of Thoughts.
Watch Dr. Cassiday converse on the TedX Youth@WonderlandRd Occasion
Hearken to Dr. Cassiday’s podcast, Mothers With out Fear, on iHeartRadio
Affected person Age Vary: 2 years and up
Workplace Location: Deerfield
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