Specialties
At Lakeview Center for Psychotherapy, our therapists use a flexible, integrative approach in which we combine therapeutic styles in order to meet our clients' individual needs.
We integrate three major approaches: psychodynamic, cognitive/behavioral, and experiential.
Relational psychodynamic therapy explores past and present relationships in order to understand the origin of symptoms and patterns and to shift the way we feel about others and ourselves.
Cognitive/Behavioral Therapy, including Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, teaches practical skills to provide relief from painful symptoms.
Experiential techniques, such as mindfulness meditation, role playing, play therapy, and art and movement therapy, offer the opportunity to experience our feelings directly, to learn to work with difficult emotions, and to know ourselves at a deeper level.
History
Established in 2007.
Lakeview Center for Psychotherapy was established by a group of like-minded interdisciplinary therapists in order to provide flexible, integrative psychotherapy for clients with a wide range of backgraounds, problems, and needs.
Meet the Manager: Niquie D.
Niquie Dworkin, Phd, Co-Director, Coordinator of Clinical Training is a clinical psychologist with specialized training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, psychoanalytic psychotherapy and substance abuse treatment. Niquie has nearly 20 years experience in treating eating disorders. Niquie is an Assistant Professor at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and has been an Instructor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and at the Northwestern University Counseling Psychology Program. She supervises psychology students at the graduate and post-graduate levels. Niquie completed training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy and works with high-conflict couples and couples with addictions. In addition to eating disorders and substance abuse, Dr. Dworkin specializes in the treatment of compulsive shopping, gambling, sex and Internet use, obsessive/compulsive disorder, compulsive self-injury, trauma, infertility, pregnancy and postpartum issues, parenting, relationship d