I'd like to tell you some about the psychotherapy I do and about my background. Then, if you'd like, feel free to contact me and we can set up a brief phone consultation (at no charge).

I try to help each person I work with through collaboration, creativity, sensitivity, and as a unique individual. Our work might focus on mostly present day concerns, such as managing feelings, behaviors, and situations in the present, or working on more lifelong themes, or a combination of the two. Complaints that I often work with in my practice include depression, anxieties, relationship difficulties, fears, inhibitions, frustrations, problems with food or eating, procrastination, and bipolar disorder. I draw on several of the major schools of psychotherapy to individualize working towards goals we would identify together. (Treatment modalities include psychoanalytic psychotherapy, Schema therapy, DBT, CBT, Jungian psychology, and ACT.)

I work as part of Meridian Psychiatric Partners, a group practice. We can directly bill Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois PPO insurance and the Northwestern University Aetna CAPS student insurance. I am also a member of the NorthShore University HealthSystems Medical Group and can bill their BCBS HMO-Illinois plan. My non-insurance fee is $120 per therapy hour. I have sliding scale hours available. Even if we do not work with your insurance plan directly, we can assist with out-of-network reimbursement for most PPO plans.

Seeking psychotherapy is something that takes real courage and real need and can be of important benefit. I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on the efforts you are making. Let me know if I might be able to be of help.

Take care,

Curt Kearney