| You're a member of The Family Institute Alumni Association if you've completed any of these programs: |
| • | PhD or MA in Counseling Psychology at Northwestern University |
| • | MS in Marital and Family Therapy at Northwestern University |
| • | Postgraduate Training Program at The Family Institute |
| • | Postgraduate Fellowship at The Family Institute |
| • | Clinical Practicum at The Family Institute |
| • | Chemical Dependency Training at The Family Institute |
Bette D. Harris Center
The Family Institute headquarters on the campus of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
National Participating Charity
Janice Witzel, PhD, LCP
Chair
Jean Garrity Arnold, MSMFT
Leah Brennan, MSMFT
Jean Firestone, JD, MA
Gary Friend , DPM, LPC
Anita Landau Hurtig, PhD
Nancy Jensen, PhD
Jayne Kinsman, MSMFT
David Klow, MSMFT
Viviana Ploper, MA, LCPC
Leigh Rocklin , MA, MEd, LPC
Debbie Youderian, LCSW, LMFT
Janice Witzel
Janice Witzel, PhD, LCPC is a clinical supervisor at The Family Institute for graduate students in both the Marital and Family Therapy, and Counseling Psychology master's programs. Dr. Witzel graduated from Roosevelt University, Psychology, BA, MA, and earned her PhD from Northwestern University. She has been in private practice for the past 30 years, and spent 14 of those years directing a Family Therapy Program for the City of Chicago Department of Mental Health.
Dr. Witzel works with couples and individual adults dealing with issues of life transitions, relational challenges, anxiety and depression with a particular interest in the population of unmarried adults, as her dissertation would suggest: "Lives of Never-Married Women: Myths and Realities". Dr. Witzel sees clients in downtown and north Chicago.
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Jean Garrity Arnold
Jean Garrity Arnold, MSMFT is a 2005 graduate of the Marital and Family Therapy Masters Program at the Family Institute. Jean is presently on staff at Northwest Community Hospital in the Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Unit and Partial Hospital program. Jean also held a post graduate training position at Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital in the Self-Injury Partial Hospital Program.
Jean's current clinical focus is on families with adolescents experiencing depression, anxiety, school refusal, self-injury and aggressive behavior.
Leah Brennan
Leah Brennan, MSMFT, works as a therapist at PEER Services, Inc., in Glenview, Illinois. She received a Master of Science in Marital and Family Therapy from Northwestern University in 2007. Her clinical training was based at The Family Institute's Bette D. Harris Family and Child Clinic where she worked with families, couples, and individuals.
Currently, she works with couples, adolescents, families and individuals struggling with issues around substance abuse.
Jean S. Firestone, JD, MA received her JD from Duke University and her Masters in Counseling Psychology from the Family Institute at Northwestern University in 2006. Jean is currently working at the Family Institute, providing therapy for low-income individual adult clients at the Bette D. Harris Clinic and serving as a program associate for the Family Institute’s Family Business Program.
Gary Friend, DPM, LPC, is a podiatrist and senior partner of the North Shore Podiatry Group in Glenview, Lake Forest, and Gurnee. In 1999, he received a masters degree in Counseling Psychology from Northwestern University. Since then he has also been a therapist at Youth and Family Counseling in Libertyville, where he specializes marital and couples counseling, and conflict resolution for professionals in group practices. Dr. Friend is also a small group consultant at Tavistock group dynamics conferences held at Northwestern University.
Anita Landau Hurtig
Anita Landau Hurtig, PhD is a clinical psychologist licensed in Illinois since 1980 with an office in Evanston, Illinois. She recently retired from University of Illinois at Chicago Dept. of Pediatrics as Head of the Psychosocial Clinic for children and families. Dr. Hurtig is now in private practice at 847-869-0019 in Evanston, Illinois seeing primarily adolescents, adults and couples in cognitive and psycho-dynamically oriented therapy.
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Nancy Jensen
Nancy Jensen, PhD (licensed clinical psychologist) is a 1991 graduate of the certification program at The Family Institute. Her clinical experience includes over 20 years in the Department of Psychiatry at ENH Medical Group/Evanston Hospital and a part-time private practice. She treats individuals and couples covering a broad number of problems and ages, including grief, transitions, relationships, aging and mood disorders.
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Jayne Kinsman is a marital and family therapist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. She received a Master of Science in Marital and Family Therapy from Northwestern University with clinical training at The Family Institute's Bette D. Harris Family and Child Clinic. She then completed two years of advanced training in the Family Institute Postgraduate Clinical Fellowship Program. Among other activities, Ms. Kinsman is on the clinical staff of The Family Institute's Child and Adolescent Program. She is also in training to become an approved supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT).
David Klow is a postgraduate clinical fellow at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. He received his Masters of Science in Marital and Family Therapy from The Family Institute. His clinical training was based at The Family Institute's Bette D. Harris Family and Child Clinic where he worked with families, couples, individuals, children and adolescents. Additionally, Mr. Klow runs The Men's Group, and is on the clinical staff of the Children and Adolescent Program, both of which are at The Family Institute. Mr. Klow works with individuals, couples and families.
Viviana Ploper
Viviana Ploper, MA, LCPC is currently an Associate Director at Community Counseling Centers of Chicago (C4), a comprehensive behavioral health care agency, which operates eighteen outpatient programs serving about 7,000 clients per year with a budget of $15 million. Ms. Ploper oversees the operation of Child and Adolescents (C & A) services which include C & A Outpatient, Urban Systems of Care, Mental Health Juvenile Justice Initiative, Bridges, Crisis, Prevention and Consultation services. C & A services at C4 are provided to youth from the Chicago Public Schools, Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare systems.
Ms Ploper is a Clinical Member and an Approved Supervisor for AAMFT (American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy); and has been a strong advocate for children and families. She is active in the Illinois children's mental health system, serving on several committees such as the Illinois Child & Adolescent Advisory Council; the Early Childhood Mental Health Workgroup; both the School Age and the Cultural Competency Committees of the Illinois Children's Mental Health Partnership; the C & A Committee of the Community Behavioral Healthcare Association of Illinois (CBHA) and several other workgroups.
Ms. Ploper also is an adjunct faculty, providing individual supervision for Family Institute students for the past 10 years. She has served in the Alumni Association Board for the past 12 years.
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Leigh Rocklin, MA MEd, LPC earned graduate degrees in Counseling Psychology from Northwestern University and in Education from Loyola University. As a therapist at the Marjorie Kovler Center, Leigh specializes in the treatment of international survivors of government-sponsored torture. Concurrently, she is completing an advanced clinical fellowship at Cathedral Counseling Center where she treats adult clients with histories of trauma, depression and anxiety and is a Back-Home Supervisor of masters students in the Counseling Psychology Program at Northwestern. Her previous experience ranges from facilitating bereavement programs at Children’s Memorial Hospital to counseling individuals and groups in a community mental health center to providing trauma treatment at Northwestern’s Women Center.
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Debbie Youderian LCSW,LMFT is a 2000 graduate of The Family Institute. She received her Masters in Social Work in 1994. Her clinical experience includes adolescents, families and children in outpatient and inpatient psychiatric settings. She currently is a full-time mom for her three children.
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