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• Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

Connie Parr is a licensed Pediatric Nurse Practitioner with over 40 years of experience with child, adolescents and young adults. She graduated from Aurora University with her BSN and from Rush Presbyterian St Luke's Hospital with her Advanced Practice Nursing specialty. For the last 15 years she has concentrated her work in the area of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity, Learning Disabilities and Emotional Disorders. She is passionate about the patients that she sees and treats.

Dr. Martha Angel has been an individual and family psychotherapist for over twenty-five years; she graduated with her doctorate in Psychology in 2006. She has expertise in working with individuals with history of Adverse Childhood Experiences, Anxiety, and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity. She also works with youth involved in the Juvenile Justice System who are at risk of reoffending due to history of unresolved trauma. Dr. Angel has been in private practice since 2003 and she provides interventions from several treatment approaches such as systemic and structural family therapy, cognitive behavioral and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Treatment goals are created to promote affect regulation, empowerment, age appropriate decision making, and self-competency. She is bilingual in Spanish and English.

Mike has over 27 years of experience working with adolescents and young adults in both the private and public sectors. He specializes in working with individuals with Depression, Anxiety, ADHD, relationship issues, substance abuse, academic difficulties, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Mike is strengths based in his approach with clients but utilizes cognitive behavioral and dialectal behavioral approaches to identify the attitudes and beliefs of his clients that hinder personal growth, while empowering them to achieve success in life. Mike has also been working as a school social worker for 27 years in the western suburbs of Chicago, providing individual counseling and facilitating a variety of student support groups. Mike's other professional roles include serving as a field instructor for master's degree candidates in social work, presenting at Parent University workshops, facilitating district parenting groups, and serving as the social work coordinator for the school district he is employed. Working in a school district Mike has vast knowledge of special education law and school policy and can also serve as advocate for your family when trying to navigate the school system.

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• Clinical Professional Counselor

Dr. Kulkarni has over 20 years of experience as a Board Certified child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist providing psychiatric consultation and medication management for patients with mental health challenges. Each patient receives an in-depth patient evaluation that provides the basis for targeted medical treatment to secure long-term medical stability and an improvement in their quality of life. Dr. Kulkarni works with individuals, couples, families, therapists and schools to coordinate effective treatment. Over the course of his career, Dr. Kulkarni has developed extensive clinical expertise and experience in treating: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Depression, Generalized Anxiety, Panic Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorders.