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Deborah L. Fosco, M.S.W.,
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Office Location: Oak Park, Illinois
Counseling: Adults, Children, Adolecents, Couples, Seniors, Gay/Lesbian, Vocational
Groups Offered: Single Parent Support Group, Domestic Violence Support Group for Victims
Areas of Expertise: Play psychotherapy with children, 3 yrs and older. Psychotherapy with adolescents, adults, couples, gay and lesbian, and seniors. Treatment with children and adolescents includes individual treatment with parent/parents, and conjoint treatment with the child. A major area of clinical expertise is helping improve the relationship between parents and their children
Additional Services: Christian Counseling, Mediation (divorce, juvenille court appeals and dcfs involvement), Custody Evaluations, Home/Office Visits,Synchronous Bonding (to improve adoptive mother/child/couple attachment and child development)
Appointments: Day, Evening, Weekends
Payment Options: Insurance, Medicare, Sliding Fee Scale (self-pay)
Phone: 708-848-2631
I have been engaged in the practice of psychotherapy with children, adolescents, adults and couples for the past eighteen years. I am currently a doctoral student of clinical social work who believes that I can best help by understanding what is important for the client at this point in time.
My basic philosophical approach to treatment is the exploration and understanding of the person's stream of thinking and feeling. This discovery of how your thoughts and feelings truly affect your life will bring forth explanations about why you find yourself continuing to do and to feel things that make you unhappy. This understanding of one's unconscious thoughts and feelings will enable the person to change his or her pattern of living in the world if that is what the person wants.
Therapy is successful when the client knows it through the experiences of greater satisfactions; increased mastery of life actions and emotions, and in improved rational thinking and increased self-understanding.
It is my ethical and professional responsibility to assess whether the problem is one suited to psychotherapy or not. Therapy cannot even begin until this is known.
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