Dr. Patricia A. McMahon

Patricia McMahon, PsyD is a Illinois Licensed Psychologist with an office in downtown Chicago

• Chicago psychologist
  

  Psychotherapy is a very individual process. It empowers many people to better understand their life situations in order to set and reach personal goals, strengthen relationships, improve coping skills, manage loss and grief, or make grounded decisions to adjust to changed life circumstances.

  
  

  By its structure, psychotherapy allows you to talk concerns or problems through in a secure space, and allows you to explore thoughts, feelings, and problem solving in a way that solitary introspection or conversations with friends and relatives often cannot achieve.

  
  

  The psychotherapy relationship is collaborative. You set the direction, content and pace of your counseling with me. Most times counseling will involve the two of us identifying and exploring your needs, attitudes, thinking and feelings that lead to your specific behaviors or interactions with others. You may feel confused, frustrated, or not in sufficient control of your life when your motives and goals are unclear to you. However, understanding your motives in romantic relationships, family interactions and career choices are often a central component of exploration in counseling; this deeper understanding brings your present life into focus, empowering problem solving, goal attainment and future personal development.

  
  

  Whether discussing your past, present or future, I approach the counseling process as a collaboration with you to most effectively identify whatever interferes with your goal attainment. I draw on my pre- and post- doctoral studies in analytic/dynamic, cognitive, and neuropsychological theory to understand personality, motivation, behavior and relationships. It is my goal to use my experieince to help us understand the intricacies of your impasses as well as to identify new ways to reach your goals.

  
  

  In addition, I bring experience with many client questions and problems to my work with each individual client or couple. Familiar with a wide range of issues -- including anxiety, ACOA, ADHD, PTSD, grief, depression, sexuality, sexual identity, acculturation, divorce, eating disorders and life transitions -- I have provided psychotherapy services for over 15 years. I have worked with high school, undergraduate and graduate students, and individuals from many cultural backgrounds. My clients have had varied careers, e.g. they have been clinicians, teachers/professors, physicians, lawyers, corporate executives, private business persons, trade workers, mechanics, retail managers and clerks, exotic dancers. I work with individuals who have moved to the U.S.to live or attend school, individuals who are returning to the U.S. after living abroad, as well as individuals preparing to return to their home country after studying or working in the U.S. I work with individuals struggling with questions about sexuality or past sexual experiences. Thus, I will bring a rich experience with the complexity of many individual life journeys as a life coach to work with you.

  
  

  Chicago psychotherapist Patricia McMahon, PsyD
  Downtown Chicago -- Monday, Wednesday and Friday
  30 North Michigan
  Chicago Illinois 60602
  847-570-0817
  and
  Schaumburg -- Thursday
  1821 Walden Office Square
  Schaumburg Illinois 60173
  847-570-0817
  Office hours are by appointment.
  
  

  

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