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Maureen L McKane, Director, MSW, LCSW
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| Licensed: |
State of Illinois |
| Postgraduate Training: |
Family Institute of Chicago at Northwestern University |
| MSW: |
University of Illinois |
| Author: |
Former Columnist for the Aurora Beacon News |
| Publications: |
Articles in the Child Welfare Journal, Family & Conciliation Courts Review & Kane County Chronicle |
| Recipient: |
Woman of Achievement Award, 1991 |
| Member: |
National Association of Social Workers; Diabetes Education Advisory Board, Delnor Community Hospital; Geneva Women in Business |
| Community Lectures: |
Empowering, divorce, parenting, children & adolescent issues, step-families, Diabetes and feelings |
| Board of Directors: |
Family Counseling Service, Aurora, IL (Past President) |
| Theoretical Framework: |
Mixes Psychodynamic, Practical Behavioral Approaches, Family Systems Theory and EMDR
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Stephanie Nelson-Gerhardt, MS, LMFT
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| Licensed: |
State of Illinois |
| MS: |
Northern Illinois University |
| BS: |
Eastern Illinois University |
| Specialization: |
Couples issues ranging from intimacy building and communication issues to infidelity. Relationship coaching for individuals who struggle with friends, family members or dating partners to help them create and maintain healthy, meaningful relationships. Family therapy for parents who find it difficult to connect with and influence their adolescent children. |
| Adolescent Experience: |
Youth Service Bureau, DeKalb, IL |
| Couples Work: |
The Couples Clinic, Geneva, IL |
| Theoretical Framework: |
Takes an active, directive approach combining a variety of therapeutic models including family systems and attachment theory |
| Specialized Training: |
Pragmatic Experiential Therapy model for Couples (PET-C).
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Julie DeFalco, MSW, LCSW
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| Licensed: |
State of Illinois Licensed Clinical Social Worker |
| MSW: |
Loyola University School of Social Work |
| Specialization: |
- Adolescent Development – helping parents understand what’s to be expected with normal adolescent development and what might indicate a problem.
- Aggression and Behavioral Disorders – helping children and teens understand the motivation for their behaviors and teaching them more positive coping skills and appropriate emotional expression; helping parents set limits and structure to encourage positive behaviors.
- Mood Disorders – helping clients understand and manage their emotions in order to be happy and productive.
- Parent-Child Communication
- Relationship Issues
- Multicultural Sensitivity - Experience working with clients from diverse backgrounds
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| Adolescent Experience: |
Spectrum Youth and Family Services, Hoffman Estates, IL Asst Director for Youth Development |
| Theoretical Framework: |
Takes a client-centered approach, combining cognitive-behavioral techniques with psychodynamic, insight-oriented therapy. Counseling is tailored to each client’s individual needs and preferences. |
| Specialized Training: |
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT); Positive Adolescent Choices Training (PACT); Washington Aggression Interruption Training (WAIT) |
| Community Lectures: |
Communicating with Teens, Parenting Teens, Teens & Technology
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Deborah Miller-Lunsford, LCSW
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| Licensed: |
State of Illinois Licensed Clinical Social Worker |
| MSW: |
University of Illinois, Chicago |
| Specialties: |
Working with individuals, all ages, who are dealing with life transitions.
Sexual abuse and trauma. Depression and anxiety. Women's issues.
Relationship issues. ADHD: it's individual and family challenges.
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| Experience: |
Over 20 years, Spectrum Youth and Family Services: provided
individual and Family counseling; coordinated and supervised student
internship program; coordinated DCFS contract. Co-chairman Illinois
LAN 46 Wraparound Services. Worked also with adults, couples,
children and families in private practice settings. |
| Theoretical Framework: |
Creates a therapeutic environment that is nurturing and non-
judgmental, allowing her clients an opportunity to discover their inner
strengths and challenge old belief systems and behaviors that have
impacted their quality of life. Treatment approaches include Cognitive
Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Solution
Focused and Psychodynamic methods. |
| Member: |
National Association of Social Workers |
| Specialized Training: |
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Washington Aggression Interruption Training (WAIT)
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Lin Shi, PhD, LMFT
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| Licensed: |
State of Illinois, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist |
| PhD: |
Texas Tech University |
| Specialties: |
Couple relationships; Child abuse and trauma recovery; Parent-child relationships; Whole family issues; Conflict resolution; Marriage across cultures.
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| Teaching: |
Associate Professor and Program Director in Marriage and Family Therapy, Northern Illinois University; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
| Research: |
Dr. Shi’s research has been published in Family Process, The American Journal of Family Therapy, Journal of Family Psychotherapy and other professional journals. Studies include effective methods of family therapy as well as attachment theory and child abuse and neglect. She has presented multiple years at the World Congress of Family Therapy and the American Association of Family Therapy. |
| Professional Contribution: |
Dr. Shi is invited regularly by leading universities internationally to lecture on special topics in Marriage and Family Therapy and provide intensive clinical supervision. She also travels periodically to other countries on behalf of the International Family Therapy Association, to teach Family Therapy to professionals in search of this expertise. |
| Member: |
Clinical Fellow, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT); Member, International Family Therapy Association (IFTA); Board Member, Training Division, IFTA |
| Theoretical Framework: |
Dr. Shi’s clinical work is heavily influenced by the Attachment Theory, Bowen’s Family Systems Theory, Structural Family Therapy, and Cognitive/Behavioral Therapy. She is very sensitive to emotional and behavioral experiences that shape the current relationship dynamic. She is an expert on helping clients make constructive changes through gaining important insight from the past. She encourages clients to explore through her nurturing and sensitive clinical moves.
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