Current Therapy Groups

This group is designed for high school age girls who wish to have a supportive environment to address a variety of emotional and relationship issues. The objectives of this group are to encourage the development of trust and safety among group members, to facilitate open and honest expression of feelings and concerns, to foster assertiveness and healthy communication skills, and to address social and psychological issues relevant to older adolescent girls. The group facilitator will be Dr. Allisun Noe. Dr. Noe has experience working with adolescents who have had difficulty with depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and substance abuse.

Day: Tuesdays Time: 5:00 - 6:30pm Cost: $55 per session Contact: Allisun Noe, Psy.D. at ext. 211

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Adult Creative Arts Group

The intention for this group is self-empowerment and self-exploration. The participant will be able to connect with others through creative writing and art making while experiencing growth, recognizing one's own uniqueness and witnessing a process of change. No previous writing or art experience is required. Art materials will be provided.

Day: Tuesday Time: 7:00-8:30 pm Cost: $40 per session Max Participants: 6

Contact: Radmila Abram, MA, ATR-BC, LCPC
at 847-917-3741 or 630-393-9800 ext. 218

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Coping Constructively with Medical Illness

This 5-session weekly group begins on 5/9/05 and ends on 6/6/05. This group will provide participants with techniques and skills to assist in coping with the emotional and behavioral aspects of asthma, allergies, arthritis, diabetes, fibromyalgia, high blood pressure, heart disease, and pain disorders.

Day: Monday Time: 3:30-5:00 pm Cost: $55 per session Contact: Dr. Martin at 630.778.9300 extension 202

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Mother-Daughter Dialogues

Mothers and daughters have to renegotiate their relationship as adolescent autonomy emerges. The goal of this day-long workshop is to increase healthy connections between mothers and daughters by defusing conflict, promoting understanding, and developing strategies for mothers to assist their teen-aged daughters in ways that daughters find supportive.

This workshop is intended for mothers and their daughters who are in high school. While mother-daughter pairs are the intended participants, individual mothers or daughters are also welcome to attend.

Please join facilitators Denise Dojka, Psy.D. and Allisun Noe, Psy.D. for this day-long journey into better connections and increased zest, clarity, empowerment and well-being.

In order to provide ample opportunity for participation, registration is limited to a maximum of seven mother-daughter pairs.

Day: Saturday, October 29, 2005* Time: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Cost: $100 per mother-daughter pair Contact: Denise Dojka, Ph.D. (630) 778-9300 x212 or Allisun Noe, Psy.D. ext. 211

*Additional workshop dates will follow. Persons who are unable to participate on October 29th may call to place their names on a list for possible future workshop dates.

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Recovering from Unexpected Job Loss

This is a 5-session weekly group. This group will provide participants with techniques and skills to assist in coping with emotional and behavioral aspects of losing a job. Equally important, this group will focus on providing participants with techniques designed to re-capture a sense of resiliency and to learn how to decide what to do next in the career search as well as confront decision paralysis and procrastination.

Day: Monday Time: 7:30 - 9:00 pm Cost: $55 per session Contact: Dr. Martin at 630.778.9300 extension 202

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Taming Overspending and Overshopping

This is a 5-session weekly group. This group will provide participants with the techniques and skills to identify habits associated with overspending and overshopping as well as learn techniques to acquire greater control of impulsive and compulsive shopping and spending patterns.

Day: Monday Time: 5:30-7:00pm Cost: $55 per session Contact: Dr. Martin at 630.778.9300 extension 20

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