Chicago Center for Psychotherapy

07/09/2025

be the amaya papaya you wish to see in the world 🫶🏼🌴💖

06/01/2025

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Happy Pride Month! Here’s your annual reminder that queerness is natural in many species, not just our own.

If you want to do something extra to protect these animals this month, join our Protect the Wild challenge in our bio to get rewarded for your donations to conservation orgs.

05/24/2025

book club, anyone? 📖👀

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At the Liberatory Wellness Network, we don’t separate healing from history. We know mental health doesn’t exist in a vacuum - it exists in systems: carceral systems, colonial systems, white supremacist systems, ableist systems.

This reading list is for those of you unlearning the lie that healing has to come from a license. It’s for the community care workers, the therapists trying to divest from harmful training, the folks doing harm reduction on the ground, the survivors who know, and the people trying to figure out where their role fits in all this.

These texts challenge psychiatry, uplift community wisdom, and offer frameworks rooted in disability justice, abolition, and decolonial practice.

This list isn’t exhaustive, but it’s a place to begin or come back to. To disrupt, remember, and rebuild.

Drop your favorite radical mental health text below.

We learn in community. Always.

05/21/2025

Yesterday, our Practice Director at had the honor of participating in a mental health in the workplace panel at alongside incredible organizations like and . Moderated by the wonderful , we shared insights on promoting mental well-being in professional settings 💼💚 Followed by an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the newsroom – what an incredible experience! 💫

05/19/2025

Oh no! 😱 Did you miss our FREE workshop last week on yoga, resilience, and LGBTQ+ mental health, facilitated by CCP therapist Abigail Serafin, LSW ⁉️🫣

💫Not to worry - Abigail is accepting new clients and would still love the chance to connect with you and share her wisdom! Reach out today to level up your healing journey ⌨️☎️

We’re excited to hear from you soon! 🤗

05/06/2025

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I am offering two workshops:

Neuroqueering Shame in Our Creative Lives
Sunday 18 May

Creating in Spiral Time
Sunday 25 May

See first comments and link in bio for more information!

Slowing down to get things done: the paradox of neuroemergent* time
*aka non-normative neurotypes

Neuroemergent Time can be viewed as an elliptical orbit.

Things speed up during parts of this orbit, but they necessarily slow down during the rest of it.

In neuroemergent time, there are the “getting s**t done” phases of the orbit,
periods of intense concentration, energy, & productivity.

In neuroemergent time, there are also necessarily the “spinning out in space gathering stardust” phases of the spiral orbit, periods of stillness, of staring out windows, of diving down rabbit holes.

You may feel like you only ever experience the “spinning out in space gathering stardust” part of this spiral orbit. In fact, you may call that “Executive Dysfunction.”

That is because you have been so shamed about the slow, still parts of your spiral through time, that your “getting s**t done” phase of the orbit has been artificially disabled.

That shame is a political tool that has been used to wrench you back into conformity with neuronormative expectations about time and productivity.

When you have not been able to conform, on account of your neurodivergent differences, the dysfunction that shame causes is then turned back on you and treated as a symptom of your “pathology.”

You may feel a lot of grief about “lost time,” “wasted time,” “missed opportunities,” and a lot of shame about former special interestst and abandoned projects.

But when we start to understand time differently, and we begin to resist the shame that is imposed on us, we can spiral back around and revisit the past, where nothing is ever lost, wasted, or abandoned.

We can begin to compost all that shame and grow gardens in it from the seeds sprinkled out there in space like stardust.

We can find threads that we can pull through our whole lives in ways that give them shape and meaning and coherence.

We can heal our broken hearts.

05/01/2025

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Learning!!!!

04/28/2025

🌈Join us virtually on Thursday, May 15th from 6:30-7:30pm CT for a (free!) transformative workshop designed specifically for our LGBTQIA+ community, led by Abigail Serafin, LSW, CYT, a skilled relational trauma therapist and certified yoga teacher.

🌟In today’s complex landscape, understanding the vital connection between resilience and mental health is crucial. Together, we will explore the unique role resiliency plays as a protective factor and engage in brief experiential exercises tailored to our community’s needs. Connect with like-minded individuals and gain valuable tools to help you navigate uncertainty, foster self-regulation, and promote well-being in a safe and affirming space. Join us in celebrating and uplifting our vibrant community through the healing power of resilience.

04/12/2025

Decide.

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04/11/2025

first test post since the account got banned from posting and sharing on Instagram for 3 months, ostensibly because we were sharing LGBTQIA+ mental health resources 🫠🤞🏼 ?

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You don’t need to be “okay” right now (I’m not).

Your body knows something is wrong ⚠️

It is correct.

Emotional dysregulation is embodied communication. Our bodies are not meant to be silent in times of g*n*c*des, f*sc*sm, environmental collapse 🌍

Grief, rage, fear, overwhelm are signals. Our system is speaking - “Something here matters. Something important is happening - can you feel it?”

We carry stories inside our nervous systems - stories of survival, displacement, resistance. Our stories speak through our bodies. They recognize the horrors of the present moment. They are talking back to the pain of the present day 🧬

Emotional pain doesn’t mean we are broken - it means we remember. Grief, rage, fear, overwhelm are signs our bodies are still in relationship - with history, with lineage, with hope ✨, with each other, with the land 🌱

When the waves of feeling come, let them remind us that we are still alive - still attuned, still affected by the world around us. We are still human in dehumanizing conditions 🫀

Let the waves of feeling move you into action. Move with them, not against them. Let the grief and the pain move through you - not harden inside you 🌊

Life brings us more than we can feel alone. It’s meant to be held, felt, lived, together 🤝

Strong relationships build strong liberation movements -

Join us for the ✨Apology Essentials Workshop ✨

We’ll learn how to -

✨give an authentic apology
✨while staying connected to your body
✨and rebuilding broken trust

Take this workshop with your friends, room mates, collaborators and lovers!

Join in live on zoom or tune into the recording 📼

We will be learning through the lense of transformative justice 🌀 and prison abolition⛓️‍💥, using tools inspired by Creative Interventions, Generative Somatics and Qi Gong (a Chinese cultural technology).

Sliding scale & NOTAFLOF for QTBIPOC 💖
👉 More info in bio!

03/11/2025

https://www.ccptherapists.com/blog/new-ccp-team-member-abigail-serafin-msw-lsw

Abigail works with individual adults and couples and specializes in s*x therapy, somatic therapy, and working with the LGBTQIA+ population. She is currently accepting new clients both virtually anywhere in Illinois and in-person in our Ravenswood, Chicago office. Reach out today!

01/24/2025

📣📣 DID YOU KNOW!? ✨➡️ CCP psychotherapist Angel Kellark, MSW, LSW, specializes in play therapy with kiddos as young as 6️⃣✨

👧🏽👦🏻Angel has experience working with both kids and adults on issues related to depression, anxiety, executive functioning issues, improving school performance, increasing emotional awareness, and ADHD/Autism. 🧑‍🧑‍🧒

‼️Angel is CURRENTLY ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS with immediate availability on both Fridays (in-person) and Saturdays (remote). 🔗 NEW CLIENT REQUEST FORM L!NK IN BI0 🫶🏼