Psychotherapy Group Private Practice Co-Owner• Manages 18-therapist psychotherapy group that specializes in addiction, trauma and wellness and sees clients 2 years old and up, couples, families, individuals, and groups• Directs clinical operations, billing, and marketing Psychotherapist:• Primarily works with individual adults• Trauma specialist• Recognizes the mind-body connection - uses EMDR and Somatic Experiencing, including Somatic Touch• Interests: trauma, attachment and early development, addiction, the brain and autonomic nervous system• Life is about thriving, not just surviving!Approved Provider (at all levels) by SETI for Personal Sessions, Individual Case Consultations, and Small Group Case Consultations for Somatic Experiencing practitioners in training. Also Approved by SETI as a Beginning 1 DVD Review Provider.Trained divorce and family mediator:• Provides comfortable, controlled and safe environment • Facilitates and guides direct communication between disputing parties• Keeps things on a fair, even keel so that parties solve their problems, not the courts• Mediation: a quicker, lower cost, and less adversarial alternative to divorce through litigationClients appreciate my open, spiritual manner, and that I offer hope and healing in a gently humorous and accepting way that eases pain.Convenient Glen Ellyn office in DuPage County and Jefferson Park office in northwest Chicago.