Richard C Park, LMFT

I've been fortunate enough to witness the ability that psychotherapy has to reflect a clear and uplifting view of your true self. Our emotions are deep, complex, and often misunderstood. By safely building meaningful context around your emotions, thoughts, and experiences, you understand yourself more clearly. This understanding leads to a freedom to pursue a life and future that makes you truly happy. My practice is focused on those ranging from late adolescence to middle adulthood. My view is that gradual exploration of your personality, relational history, and internal conflicts is valuable. My approach is psychodynamic and focuses on the influence that familial and interpersonal attachments as well as life experiences have on how you view yourself and your relationships. Areas of treatment focus include: anxiety, breakups/separations, life transitions, mood disorders, psychosis, self esteem conflicts, relationship & dating issues, social isolation, and trauma. I received my MA in couple and family therapy from Adler University and received my BS in psychology from Loyola University Chicago. My graduate clinical training was in Psychodynamic Community Mental Health at The Kedzie Center. I'm pursuing a certificate in Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies at The Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity. I’m an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, and am an adjunct faculty member at The Family Institute at Northwestern University.