Psychological issues and other areas of clinical attention

These can include things such as:

• Abuse or neglect problems such as the physical, sexual or emotional abuse
• Adjustment Disorders such as dealing with the aftermath of various life-changing events
• Anxiety Disorders such as Anxieties, Panic Disorders, Phobias, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders (OCD) and Stress
• Attention-Deficit Disorders (ADD) and how it affects your experience of the world
• Bereavement
• Eating Disorders such as Bulimia and overeating
• Mood Disorders such as Depression and Bipolar Disorders
• Occupational / work problems
• Personality Disorders such as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders (OCD) and a variety of other conditions
• Pervasive Developmental Disorders such as Asperger's Disorder
• Phase of life problems (or how we deal with and come to accept our many life changing events)
• Psychological factors that affect medical conditions
• Relational problems between parents and children, between partners, between siblings and relational problems because of mental disorders or general medical conditions
• Religious or spiritual problems
• Sexual Disorders such as sexual psychological orders affecting arousal, erections and orgasms for both men and women
• Sleep Disorders such as Insomnia and the psychological affects of having such conditions
• Socialization problems (or how we learn to relate to people)
• Somatoform and Factitious Disorders such as Pain Disorders, Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorders and other issues that relate to your perception of your body.
• Substance-Related Disorders (such as alcohol and drug-related issues).

Individual conditions

We provide help with a wide range of issues, including (but not limited to):

• educational/cognitive issues
• psychological and traumatic issues and other areas of clinical attention
• medical conditions which affect psychological or family related concerns (or visa versa, psychological issues, which effect medical conditions)
• work, school and life transitions.

Note: These therapy areas are also sometimes explored as part of marriage therapy and family therapy as the need arises.

Academic / educational / cognitive issues

These can include things such as:

• Academic concerns
• Attention-Deficit Disorders (ADD) (how it affects your learning, as well as your interactions with others)
• Communication Disorders and the psychological stress that comes from having and dealing with such disorders
• Giftedness
• Learning Disorders (LD) and the psychological stress that comes from having and dealing with such disorders
• Mixed educational/cognitive profiles such as being Gifted and having a Learning Disorder etc (see How multiple conditions can impact each other? for further details)
• Mixed educational/cognitive profiles and psychological (or psycho-social) issues etc (see How multiple conditions can impact each other? for further details)
• And many other educational/psychological concerns that affect children, adolescents and adults.

In terms of the educational psychological services that we provide, it is not just education about various conditions and how to address them but also learning how to think, act and know yourself and others in a more encompassing and productive way.

Traumatic issues such as:

• Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI)
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD)
• Physical, sexual and emotional abuse and the resulting PTSD and other conditions
• Death, dying and grief
• Other life span developmental traumas.
  

We use a method of working with a traumatic experience called Rapid Trauma Resolution where you can work on healing deeply disturbing events and subsequent difficulties without being re-traumatized.

It eliminates the ongoing influence from traumatic events even when they are repressed or forgotten. Otherwise these "ghosts from the past" can fuel emotional problems and destructive behavior patterns.

Like a pebble dropped in a pond, the ripples go out, and then reverberate back in upon themselves, triggering more and more difficulties. This process resolves the inciting event, and then calms and resolves all the other resulting disturbances.

What should I do next?

Contact us to arrange for individual, couple or family therapy in the Chicago, Evanston or Schaumburg Illinois areas by phoning 1-888-870-1775 or by emailing info@ardentcenter.com.