Postgraduate Clinical Fellows of The Family Institute are professionals who are completing a two-year commitment of advanced training in marital and family therapy under the supervision of Family Institute clinical staff.

Clinical Fellows treat children, adolescents, adults, individuals, couples and families on a sliding scale fee at the Bette D. Harris Family and Child Clinic in Evanston, Chicago and LaGrange Park.

Please see the Clinical Fellows' areas of specialization, who they treat, practice locations and links to biographies below:

Leah Bloom, MSMFT

• Adoption (domestic and international); adolescents; children of divorce; couples intimacy and communication; sexual abuse/trauma; lifecycle and developmental transitions
• Downtown Chicago, Evanston
• See biography

Simona Cirio, MSMFT

• Family systems and transitions; couple’s intimacy and satisfaction in long-term marriages; premarital counseling; women’s and gender issues; individual development in the life cycle (female adolescence, parenthood, mid-life and aging); prenatal and post-partum counseling; mother-daughter relationship; parent-child relationships and attachment; self-esteem and identity; multiculturalism and immigration; grief and loss; generativism and spirituality.
• Downtown Chicago, Evanston
• See biography

Kate Goldhaber, PhD

• Couples intimacy, communication, conflict, and transitions; families coping with mental illness; recovering from trauma, grief, and loss; body image, weight, and eating disorders
• Downtown Chicago, Evanston
• See biography

Thomas Hammerman, MLIS, MSMFT

• Couples, individual adults and adolescents, family business, wealth and families, premarital counseling, families with adolescent/adult children, men’s issues, adult life transitions, families and illness, religion, spirituality, and Jewish issues

• Evanston, Northbrook
• See biography

Megan Mayberry , PhD

• Adolescent and young adult individual therapy; family and couples therapy; parent-child relationships, emotional and behavioral regulation difficulties, post-traumatic stress/trauma and recovery; psychological assessment, families with mental illness, and severe mental illness.

• Downtown Chicago, Evanston
• See biography

Sharon Risch, PhD

• Adolescents, individual adults, parent-child relationships, adoption issues, conflict and intimacy in couples, premarital therapy and transitions from dating to marriage, psychological assessment, and severe mental illness.   

• Downtown Chicago, Evanston
• See biography