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Referral spotlight Child Therapy Chicago
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Dean Denise Tsioles, PhD, passes along this referral: Child Therapy Chicago specializes in psychodynamic play-based and talk therapy for toddlers through teens, with offices in Lakeview, Naperville, and the North Shore. Afterschool, evening, and weekend hours available. Many therapists on staff are ICSW graduates.
Referral spotlight — Heather Stewart, PhD, LCSW ('04)
Heather provides psychodynamic psychotherapy to adults (18+) virtually at The Family Institute at Northwestern University, accepting BCBS PPO and self-pay. With 30+ years of experience across community mental health, private practice, and university counseling, her interests include family-of-origin work, anxiety, depression, and Latino cultural identity — her dissertation examined the developmental role of the cotillion for Latina girls.
Alumnae Updates
Renee Dickerson, PhD — "Breaking Barriers: A Woman's Vet Journey"
Email Email HerServiceMatters@gmail.com for details
In Memoriam
Sister Marie McKenna, PhD
ICSW alumna Sister Marie McKenna, PhD, passed away in October 2024. She spent thirty years at Catholic Charities and maintained a private practice. Her dissertation, “The Influence of Irish Colonial History on Subsequent Generations” (2022), remains part of the ICSW record, alongside a recorded talk on effective communication.
Meet the Alumni Committee
Carrie Torgerson, PhD, LCSW
Bill Singerman
Myrna Orenstein, PhD, LCSW
Leah Harp, LCSW, Ph.D.
Freda Baron Friedman, Ph.D.
Alumni Resources
Alumni Referral Directory
Find fellow ICSW graduates by location and specialty for client referrals.
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Keep your record current so we can reach you with news, referrals, and events.
Update Your Contact Info
Keep your record current so we can reach you with news, referrals, and events.
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Update Your Contact Info
Do you have a new job, pet, or project to announce, then please email Leah Harp, Chair of Alumni Committee at
leahharp@gmail.com.
DISSERTATION ARCHIVE
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Access decades of ICSW dissertations, plus roughly 2,500 volumes of psychodynamic and psychoanalytic literature in the 2nd floor library stacks and an archive of journals.