Mental Health Archives - Life Care Wellness

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Happy Memorial Day…or is it?

May 27, 2017 rk

It's here. Memorial Day weekend. Happy Memorial Day... or is it? If you are in early recovery, it can be challenging. When most of us think about Memorial Day, we think about getting the day off, hanging out with family and/or friends, barbecues, fun and sun etc. However, for … [Read more...]

Finding Flow

March 14, 2016 rk

Today I am making a cherry pie (it is PI day after all 3.1416...!) I notice as I measure the ingredients and cut in the butter and form the lattice top that I am so focused on what I am doing that I’m not thinking about anything else. I have found my flow. This flow state leaves … [Read more...]

Is it Anxiety?

February 18, 2016 rk

It is normal to feel anxious or depressed sometimes. Difficult life situations like losing a loved one, going through a financial downturn or getting "downsized," going through a divorce, and other stressors can cause a person to feel sad, lonely, scared, nervous, or anxious. But … [Read more...]

Psychology and the Workplace

November 25, 2015 rk

I was proud to co-edit a book with Leanne VanderCreek and H. Stephen Wright released earlier this month entitled “The Psychology of Librarianship” (Library Juice Press, 2015). I was an academic music librarian for about 20 years before beginning my work in the field of clinical … [Read more...]

Fostering Community

October 30, 2015 rk

As I sit here typing, my husband is watching a rugby match on television while texting his family, who is watching the very same game 9,000 miles away in South Africa. While I know he would rather have the in-person interaction with his family, his use of technology allows him … [Read more...]

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Serving West Chicagoland including Winfield, Wheaton, Lisle, Glen Ellyn, Lombard, Downers Grove and Elmhurst.

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Serving Jefferson Park, Lincolnwood, Edgebrook, North Park, Albany Park, Harwood Heights, Norwood Park and the near North suburbs including Park Ridge, Niles, Skokie and Evanston.

Get Unstuck!

Our new, ACTIVE therapy group utilizes running to help you get unstuck, whether the stuckness is in your career, relationship, emotions, or life in general. This closed small group (capped at 8 participants) meets for 6 weeks and focuses on a different topic each week to recognize stuckness, work through stuck points, and move forward. The 60-minute group meets early morning on Thursdays for a brief discussion of the week’s topic focus, then the group runs to and in area parks before a wrap-up to process participants’ experiences. Group facilitator Sanya Syrstad, LCPC is a seasoned professional counselor who also is a world class athlete in her age group. This group is ideal for those who lead busy lives and struggle with finding time for self-care. No running experience is required.

This FREE 9 to 12 week group is for children 4 to 7 years old who are grieving the loss of a loved one due to death, divorce, deployment, long-term illness, incarceration, or other life-altering event. Children in the group can grieve, communicate, and heal among their peers, so they no longer feel alone in their grief and can gain confidence from the groups support. A group for 8 to 11 year-old children may be added pending interest. Rainbows is forming now and is led by Kristine Buelow, LSW in our Glen Ellyn office.

Rainbows Grief & Loss Group for Children

Manage Stress and Anxiety with Relaxation and Awareness

This awareness and skill-building group to manage anxiety is led by Marina Lisjonok, MSW, E-RYT. The group helps you learn to identify your anxiety triggers, be guided through yogic breath and movement techniques for stress management and emotional well-being, learn mindfulness and meditation techniques, and process your learning in these 75-minute sessions. Forming now for Mondays, 6:00-7:15p.m. in our Glen Ellyn office.

Manage Anxiety & Stress

The Power of Meditation

Learn what meditation is, its benefits, and the "how to" basics in this open enrollment, 6-week ongoing series. Each session, we will explore a different meditation or mindfulness technique and provide you with enough knowledge for a foundation on which you can confidently build your own practice. Recordings of each guided meditation will be provided to facilitate practice between sessions. Wednesday evenings, 6:30-7:30 in our Glen Ellyn office. Life Coach and certified yoga teacher Stephanie Gutzmer of From Within and Myles Van Camp, MS facilitate this group.

The Power of Meditation

Explore how the body can be an incredible resource for self-regulation, self-care, and peace, and learn how to allow the body to be that resource. In this 4-session group, you will learn to connect with the body, listen to its sensations and impulses, and practice ways of bringing the body into a state of calm curiosity. Kim Rothwell, LCPC, CADC, BC-DMT, GL-CMA leads this group, which if forming now, for 4 consecutive Tuesdays, 1:00-2:00.

Embodiment Group

Motherhood: Embracing the Transformation

Becoming a mother is not easy. Rarely are mothers granted the time and space to reflect and recuperate. In this group, we explore with compassion and a fierce commitment to the celebration of the “good enough” mother. Part support group, part experiential group focusing on self-care, and part opportunity to hold each mothers’ story, this group is designed to allow women to not just survive but thrive in their role of mother. Kimberly Rothwell, BC-DMT, LCPC, CADC leads this 4-session group-course which is forming now on for Thursdays, 6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. in the Glen Ellyn office.

Motherhood Group

For Professionals: Authentic Movement - Understanding Embodiment and Somatic Counter-Transference

This course is designed to support therapists in their process of working with clients by supporting the therapist's own embodiment and awareness of somatic counter-transference. Using Authentic Movement, a mindfulness practice that “drops in” to the embodied experience of sensation, impulse, emotion, and imagery, movement can unfold from a deep inner wisdom. By coming into contact with one's own embodied experience with curiosity, openness, and acceptance, therapists are better equipped to be conscious of and work with the somatic counter-transference present in the therapeutic relationship. This course is $40/session, and forming now to be held Thursday evenings, 6:00-7:30, and led by Dance Movement Therapist Kim Rothwell, LCPC, CADC, BC-DMT, GL-CMA.

Authentic Movement for Professionals