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www.jimcosenza.com

Jim Cosenza is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a private psychotherapy practice in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood.

Therapy presents opportunities for growth and healing. Your values will be our guide. In our work together, we will focus on what’s important to you and what gives you a sense of purpose in life.

Specialties, areas of study and expertise

• Relationships
• Substance addictions
• Mood disorders
• Anxiety disorders
• Trauma and PTSD
• Career
• Personality disorders
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender issues
• Grief and Loss
• Divorce
• Health, chronic illness, including terminal illnesses & HIV/AIDS
• Transgender clients seeking medical/surgical gender treatments
• Spouses and families of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer persons
• Spouses and families of transgender individuals
• Family therapy for non-traditional family units: blended, multi-racial, polyamory, leather, kink, etc.

I work to create a safe, comfortable environment, where you’re neither judged nor criticized. Sometimes our own internal negative critical voices overwhelm us. Sometimes the criticism of others makes life difficult. Our work together is to create a space where shame and judgment are balanced by respect and dignity.

My clinical approach and interventions are informed by the integration of such theoretical frameworks as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Strengths Theory, Systems Theory, Feminist Theory, Mindfulness and Acceptance, and Motivational Interviewing.

Professional Affiliations

• National Association of Social Workers
• Illinois Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Professional Certification Association, Inc., (IAODAPCA)
• WPATH, The World Professional Association for Transgender Health, Inc.
• Employee Assistance Professionals Association, Northern Illinois Chapter
• The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance – Greater Chicago Chapter
• Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
• Social Welfare Action Alliance

Location and Accessibility

The office address is 4753 North Broadway, Suite 608, Chicago, Illinois 60640

The office is located at the south-east corner of Broadway and Lawrence Avenue, in the historic Bridgeview Bank Building. Coffee shops, restaurants, and sandwich shops are available within one block.

There are northbound and southbound exits from Lake Shore Drive onto Lawrence Avenue.

• Accessibility
The building has an elevator and is accessible, including accessible restrooms.

There is a comfortable waiting room in Suite 608.

• Public Transportation
Convenient public transportation is available from the CTA’s #36 Broadway bus, #81 Lawrence Avenue bus, and the Lawrence Avenue Red Line station.

The #151 Sheridan Road bus runs three blocks to the east.

Two blocks south are the Wilson Avenue Red Line station, the #145 bus, the #148 bus, and the #78 Montrose bus.

• Parking
Off-street parking is available in the lot immediately adjacent to the Bridgeview Bank Building, on the south side of Lawrence Avenue.

There is plenty of on-street parking available in the neighborhood.

Contact

There are several ways to contact me.

• U.S. Mail
Jim Cosenza, LCSW, CADC
4753 N. Broadway, Suite 608
Chicago, IL 60640

• Email
jim@jimcosenza.com

• Telephone
773-633-6643

www.jimcosenza.com

"May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers." Thich Nhat Hanh