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Chicago Personal Growth Institute, Mark Pedigo, LCSW
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I have twenty-five years experience working with adult individuals and couples and I over a safe, trusting and challenging treatment relationship. I have experience working with depression, stress and anxiety resulting from current life circumstances and relationships. I also have experience working through long-term past emotional issues and patterns of thinking that contribute to current life stressors and restrict cureent life experience, I facilitate a collaborative treatment relationship to work together through past and current life experience and support a new experience of healing, change and growth.
I have specialized traing in couple's treatment with Imago Relationship Therapy and Emotionally Focused Couple's Therapy. I focus on managing conflict through improving communication of underlying issues and feelings. This creates acceptance and respect of differences. I then facilitate a couple building emotional safety, connection empathy with one another to improve intimacy. I also have interest, training and experience with how spirituality supports healing and growth and integrate this into treatment when a person is interested in this vital internal resource. I am also trained in mindfulness and meditation and also integrate this important stress reduction practice into therapy when desired.
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What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
After phone contact occuring within 12 hours I get needed initial presenting problem details to insure a good treatment fit. I offer a referral if another therapist in our practice has the expertise needed I do not possess. Then an initial assessment session is scheduled via phone or internet. We further work together to assess a good therapetic relationship. Treatment will be determined by the nature and severity of the presenting and underlying psychological issues. Termination is mutually determined after needed growth and completion of goals has occured.
What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
I have a B.A. in Psychology, a Masters in Social Work, Masters in Divinity and specialized training in psychodynamic therapy. I also have specialized training in couples therapy with Imago Relationship Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy. I am a meditator and am enrolled in a Mindfulness Certification program. I have over 25 years experience with out patience psychotherapy in variety of group practices.