Michael Casali, PhD

Faculty

Education

  • PhD, DePaul University, Chicago, Il

  • MS., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

  • PhD, Institute for Clinical Social Work, Chicago, IL

Courses Taught

  • CL 661: Psychodynamic Approaches to Difference

  • CCP 515: Professional Ethics in Counseling and Psychotherapy

  • Adolescent Development and Emerging Adulthood

  • Adulthood and Aging

  • Psychodynamic Psychology III: Object Relations

  • Psychodynamic Psychology I & II: Freud

Other Faculty Roles

  • Consultant

Awards & Honors

  • Adjunct Faculty of the Year, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Helen Bader School of Social Welfare, 2012

Contact

EMAIL: mcasali@icsw.edu

PHONE: 312-935-4241

Michael Casali, PhD, is currently serving as Adjunct Faculty at the School of Social Work at Concordia College, the Counseling Program at Grand Canyon University, and at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Helen Bader School of Social Welfare (where he won Adjunct Faculty of the Year in 2012). Aside from his Faculty and Consultant role here at ICSW, Michael also maintains a private and group practice focusing on child and adolescent development in Milwaukee, WI.

AREAS OF INTEREST & APPROACHES TO PRACTICE

Child and Adolescent treatment; British Object Relations/D.W. Winnicott; Language and theory

LICENSES

  • L.C.S.W., Wisconsin

  • L.C.P.C., Wisconsin

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS

  • Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society

Dissertation: Winnicott’s Transformational Metaphors—A cognitive-linguistic analysis (2010)