While sharing your innermost feelings with relative strangers may seem counter intuitive, sometimes it may be just the ticket to work on specific or recurring challenges you may face. Particularly for skills-based groups, where you are learning specific tools and tactics, the group offers a chance to practice those skills in real-time. This is…
DetailsThe Knowing is in the Being: Perspectives on Psychodynamic and Cognitive-Integrative Therapy Although psychodynamic and cognitive therapies developed pretty much as separate cultures, there is a lot of actual overlap. Ultimately, the beingness of human beings remains constant, and all effective therapy involves thoughts and feelings, actions and reactions, body and mind, within the client,…
DetailsAre you feeling stuck? Do you keep repeating the same mistakes in trying to pursue a dream or a life goal? There is a method of self-inquiry that can help untangle your unconscious resistance to achieving your life purpose. There is a systematic method for getting your life back on track so that you…
DetailsNew group for DBT starting in September! Dates: Fridays September 22 through November 10 (Group meets for 8 consecutive weeks) Group Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm. Location: The Juniper Center 1440 Renaissance Drive, Suite 320 Park Ridge, IL 60068 Facilitator: Mariann Smith, LCPC, LMFT, CADC This group is open to adults 18 and older who…
DetailsPlease join us for the July Professional Networking Event. Friday, July 21 9:30 to 11:00 AM The Juniper Center 1440 Renaissance Dr., Suite 320 From board rooms to family rooms, marijuana legalization continues to be a hot topic. This is largely due to rapidly changing attitudes toward marijuana in the United States. As the…
DetailsIf you have been thinking about joining a group practice and you are amazing, The Juniper Center is now hiring. We are expanding and looking to hire amazing therapists (you know that’s you) for our offices in Park Ridge, Chicago and Barrington. The ideal candidate will be fully licensed (all “C’s” fully in place, i.e.,…
DetailsBefore going into language and labels and identity, start with a question from Diversity & Inclusion 101: “does the difference make a difference?” Before deciding “what label” to use, realize that someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity is subjective, personal and private, and that labeling may be a form of discrimination. That said, language around…
DetailsQ. Can someone be traumatized over something horrible they’ve witnessed over the news? A. Yes. It’s called “vicarious trauma.” According to the US Veterans Administration, research generally finds an association between watching media coverage of traumatic events and stress symptoms. Furthermore, too much trauma-related television viewing may have a negative impact, especially on children. A…
DetailsDr. Margo Jacquot will speak at the 39th Annual NIEAPA Conference of the Northern Illinois Employee Assistance Professionals Association on Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace IL. Dr. Jacquot’s topic, “Transgender and gender nonconformity in the workplace: What is all this gender business, and what does it have to do…
DetailsHow do we navigate a loss when the cause of death is fraught with stigma? Suicide, homicide and overdosing are all tragic and can make the grieving process infinitely more complicated. Also, if mental illness, gender or sexual identity were part of the mix, who can you tell and what do you say? Please join…
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