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William Russell is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist. He is a senior Staff Therapist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University and the Core Faculty Director of the Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy Program at Northwestern University. His current activities at The Family Institute include clinical practice, teaching, clinical supervision, supervision mentoring, academic administration, and agency consultation. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University.
Mr. Russell received a master's degree in social work from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1976, and completed three years of postgraduate training in marital and family therapy at the Family Systems Program of the Institute for Juvenile Research. He is a Clinical Member and an Approved Supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, a Member of the American Family Therapy Academy, and a Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work.
Mr. Russell has practiced individual, couple and family psychotherapy for over thirty-five years. He has also had extensive experience in clinical supervision, clinical consultation, program development, and program administration. Additionally, he has taught and supervised systemic, integrative psychotherapy in several contexts, with past faculty appointments at The School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University, the Family Systems Program of the Institute for Juvenile Research, and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
For the past twenty years Mr. Russell has worked at The Family Institute at Northwestern University, where he has held leadership positions (Director of Community Programs and Director of the Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy Program) and has conducted an active clinical practice. He is co-author, with Institute colleagues William Pinsof, Douglas Breunlin and Jay Lebow, of several articles on Integrative Problem Centered Metaframeworks (IPCM) therapy, a systemic and integrative approach to psychotherapy practice.
In his clinical practice Mr. Russell treats families, couples and individuals. While his approach to therapy is respectful, straight forward and strength-based, he appreciates the variety and complexity of factors that may be involved with the issues people bring to therapy.
Clinical Interests: Couples; adolescent adjustment; men's issues; post-traumatic stress disorder; substance abuse; loss; depression; divorce adjustment; and life cycle/relationship transitions
Family Institute Locations: Naperville, LaGrange Park, and Evanston
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Counseling & Psychotherapy 
