I work mainly with women and teens (16 and up). My specialties are grief, loss, relationship issues, issues of self-acceptance worth, past abuse, past adoption and abortion, as well as anxiety and depression.

Hijacked by the insane push towards success, productivity and independence, at an early age most of us bury our uniqueness and the sanctuary in which we develop it in favor of honoring the sacrificial role society wants from us. As a result, we end up living divided lives where the distance between the life we want and the one we are living is miles apart. We end up, in effect, estranged from our souls.
My approach at Still Mountain Counseling is about guiding you to discover and/or enhance your “hidden wholeness”. This is a journey that can involve both a raw encounter with pain and suffering (i.e. depression, anxiety and grief and loss, etc.) as well a trip to the euphoric heights of joy and all that is in between. It is a journey bound for a full embrace of all that life has to offer! It is about living a life of integrity!

I am a licensed clinical social worker LCSW since 2007(licensed in Chicago in 2003), and a registered art therapist, ATR since 2008. My theoretical orientation for therapy is informed by bio-psycho-social, family systems, humanistic, relational, and developmental models. I have past training in cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavioral therapy.
I have an interest in mindfulness, Buddhism, nia, yoga, and martial arts.

Peg is a nurse-psychotherapist, cancer survivor and founder of Listening to Cancer, a practice specializing in dealing with the emotional impact of cancer, and the spiritual questions this experience often raises. She earned her bachelor's in science degree in nursing from the University of Minnesota and her master's in transpersonal counseling psychology from the graduate school of psychology of Naropa University. Peg is available for individual or group work with people affected by cancer or other life-threatening illness. Jean Sinoda Bolen, M.D., psychiatrist, explains how to choose a therapist for this work. 'Seek a therapist who loves the work-whose soul and heart are in it; someone for whom psychotherapy is her own soul work. When your life depends on finding meaning, the guide to your process must have found her way there.'