The Family Institute | At Northwestern University
The Family Institute
Bette D. Harris Center
The Family Institute headquarters on the campus of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.


Staff Practice Psychotherapists of The Family Institute

Aryn Grossman Froum, PhD

Dr. Froum is a licensed clinical psychologist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University.

She earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan. Her research and clinical training focused largely on how children, adolescents, and their families cope with stressful experiences.

Dr. Froum interned at the University of Michigan’s Center for the Child and the Family, where she provided outpatient psychotherapy, consulted at a preschool, and led various groups for parents and children. She subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at a therapeutic day school in suburban Chicago for children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral difficulties.

Dr. Froum treats children, adolescents, parents, and families.

Clinical interests: Parenting issues; loss and grief; divorce; blended families; mood and anxiety disorders; anger management; social skills; school problems

Family Institute location: Northbrook