Working with All Ages and Backgrounds:
Ann excels at creating a relaxed atmosphere of acceptance and kindness. Using creativity, honesty and life experience, Ann has honed therapeutic alliances with a broad range of clients from all ages and backgrounds. When working with Ann, you are the focus of the work together, with an emphasis of solution-focused care and planning.
Locally, Ann has worked in a variety of schools and communities, including Evanston, Kenilworth, Chicago, and the New Trier Learning Center, has incorporated using support dogs in Chicago Public Schools, and has worked in care communities and private homes with persons experiencing cognitive challenges.
From an early age she volunteered with persons in the last stages of life, appreciating their stories, humor and wisdom. Following college she continued to mentor and tutor while working on global environmental issues in our nation’s capital. Drawing from her deep understanding of levels of governance, and commitment to individual growth, Ann returned to the Chicago area for her masters while working in neighborhood schools throughout Chicago’s south and west sides. Drawing on her varied experience, she began to hone in and focus her work on the individual, working to build a full and complete healthy being, and an acute understanding of how that works in their surrounding systems.
