ABOUT JAYASHREE GEORGE
Education, training, and experience: I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the State of Illinois and a Registered and Board Certified Art Therapist. I graduated with a Masters degree (MS) in Marriage and Family Therapy from Kansas State University in 2012 and a doctorate in Art Therapy from New York University in 2000. I have provided couples/family therapy and art therapy services to various groups of people — children, adolescents, adults and older adults — in various settings and in various formats (individual, couple, family and group therapy).
Approach to therapy: Individuals usually come to therapy because they are distressed, dissatisfied or stuck in some way in their lives. Families and couples usually come to therapy because they are struggling with disharmony in their families and need help to find their harmony.
I am also an Art Therapist. I have an open invitation for you to create art as a way to communicate beyond words. Art and words can be a powerful combination to access healing.
I believe that the creative process is inherently healing. I am also a somatically oriented therapist, which means that I pay attention to body-based cues to help re-negotiate trauma memories.
I work predominantly from an Attachment perspective. I believe that we are hardwired to be attuned to people closest to us. When this bond frays, we struggle to restore connection. I believe that connections can be repaired.
When more than one family member is being seen in therapy, I view the whole family as the client. Therefore, releases of information for family sessions require approval of each consenting member of the family who was present at any time during treatment. Additionally, the family must agree that the therapist will not be expected to side with individual members to keep individual confidences that are harmful or destructive to other family members in treatment. In situations where the goals of family members conflict, the objective of therapy is for everyone’s goals to be addressed. Differences between each family member’s goals will be discussed during therapy.
