Curt Kearney, Psychotherapist in Evanston, 60201

Curt Kearney, MA, LCPC

Profession(s):
Psychotherapy, Social Work, Social Work
License Status:
I'm a licensed professional.
Primary License:
LCPC - 180006608

My Approach to Helping

I work in a pretty organized way. I'd first want to spend time assessing together what is going on that's contributing to your troubles. Once we have a good idea of what's going on, we can work on it better! That would be a major focus of the first handfull of sessions, including some writen inventories I'd ask you to do at home.

If you are having really painful feelings or problems right now (including depression or anxiety), I'd want to help you with specific actions and skills you can take right now to get some relief. (These skills and actions would probably mostly be drawn from DBT and CBT.) If you are interested in changing problematic life patterns that are long term (that maybe go back to childhood or adolescence and maybe come up as problems in relationships or your work life), I'll probably recommend that we use Schema Therapy in our work together. (Schema Therapy is a wonderful "integrative psychotherapy." It puts together several effective psychotherapies, including psychoanalytic object relations, CBT, DBT, Gestalt imagery work, and a focus on the positive power of our therapy relationship. Schema Therapy can be quite effective and might be a good fit especially if you've felt only relatively superficial relief from previous therapy.)

More Info About My Practice

I work as part of a group practice, Meridian Psychiatric Partners. I am in-network with these insurance plans: BlueCross BlueShield PPO, BCBS HMO-Illinois NorthShore Medical Group, and Northwestern University CAPS student plans. My fee is $120 per therapy hour, although if I am in-network or if your insurance offers out-of-network benefits your out-of-pocket portion would likely be less.