Breakthrough Therapy Model
Dr. Andrea Goddard, PsyD
Founder, Psychologist
From a young age, I have had a strong desire to understand and help people from all walks of life, which led me to invest years of time and energy into pursuing this endeavor. My first opportunity to support people in a meaningful way was as a Peace Corps volunteer in a remote village in Panama.
I developed connections with the people there and learned how to best support their needs by meeting them where they were at the time.
My passion for supporting others led me to pursue my doctorate in clinical psychology from Adler University, right here in Chicago. I completed my doctoral internship at Columbia University Medical Center in New York and my postdoctoral fellowship at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.
Before founding Breakthrough Psychotherapy, I served as the Clinical Director of Child and Family Behavioral Health in Baltimore, Maryland. There, I specialized in treatment for individuals and families with challenges around self-esteem, life-transitions, self-identity, and relationships.
I was also a supervising psychologist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and the Director of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) program, where I developed a specialty in helping individuals with severe emotional vulnerabilities, including depression, anxiety, and mood disorders. Specifically, I focused on helping individuals with unremitting depression, anxiety, and a history of suicide attempts and self-harm. In addition, I have extensive experience working with children and adolescents within the LGBTQIA+ community who are gender-questioning or are in the gender transition process.
As part of my passion for supporting families, I have significant experience working with families around their custody-related concerns. I have testified in court numerous times as both an expert and fact witness. I have also served as a court-mandated reunification therapist to support legal changes within a family system.
As a Northshore psychologist, I am personally dedicated to providing accessible mental health treatment to you and your family and will help you find the best fit for you or your loved one. Contact me about working together.
Dr. Marissa Kol, PhD, LSCW
Clinical Director
Overcoming adversity at a young age set a solid foundation for the person I am today. My true passion for helping others, combined with my research background, creativity, and over 20 years of clinical experience allows me to personalize my treatment approaches to effectively meet my clients’ needs.
With a client-centered approach and trauma-informed lens, I use evidence-based interventions such as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy), ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), and SE (Somatic Experience), and tailor each treatment to meet clients where they are and support their specific needs. My ability to form strong therapeutic alliances with my clients provides a safe space and simultaneously empowers them to trust in their own therapeutic processes.
I received my MSW from University of Michigan and PhD from Loyola University of Chicago. Since 2002 I have worked with hospice patients and bereavement groups in four different states (Illinois, California, Michigan, and Indiana), while participating in comprehensive development for the National Hospice Foundation. Additionally, I have taught as an adjunct Professor at Loyola and Chicago State in the PhD, MSW, and BSW programs.
If you’d like to work together, please contact me.
Dr. Anna Heilbrun, PhD
Training Director
I find that, most often, people seek out a therapist due to thoughts, habits, or beliefs in their life that are making them feel, generally speaking, simply "stuck."
Therapy, therefore, creates a space for them to collaborate with someone – their therapist – in uncovering and naming these unwanted aspects of their daily life in order to replace them with more grounded, realistic thoughts and actions. My goal for your therapeutic journey is for us to work together in helping you get “unstuck” by identifying goals and shifting your thoughts to lead a more values-driven life.
I specialize in working with children, adolescents, and adults with a wide range of medical and mental health concerns, including chronic and acute medical conditions (e.g., stroke, traumatic brain injury, brain tumors), anxiety and mood disorders, complex trauma, chronic pain, and insomnia. I combine evidence-based approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Exposure and Response Prevention with a warm, collaborative approach.
I completed my PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Virginia, where I conducted research on school safety initiatives, including threat assessment and bullying. I completed predoctoral training at the Kennedy Krieger Institute/Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where I trained in the assessment, rehabilitation, and treatment of pediatric patients with acquired and congenital neurological disorders. I completed my postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago Medicine, where I worked with patients with chronic medical conditions, including cancer and diabetes, as well as behavioral and emotional concerns.
In addition to my work at Breakthrough, I currently work on an interdisciplinary team at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, where I treat patients across the lifespan undergoing intensive physical and recognitive rehabilitation after an acquired injury or medical condition. I specialize in treating the complex emotional and psychological impact of living with chronic and acute medical conditions. I also work closely with parents, partners, and other family members to promote coping, resilience, and provide tools and resources.
Jeana Lucarelli, PsyD
Clinical Psychologist
Healing begins with both a collaborative and healing approach. Through joint exploration, I assist my clients in helping them focus and create a more rich, full, and meaningful life, while effectively trying to help manage the stress and pain life inevitably brings.
Providing a safe and comfortable environment that is centered on a trusting client/therapist relationship is essential for my client’s personal growth and improved quality of life. I support and encourage my clients to reach their goals by helping them learn to make healthy connections with their thoughts, feelings, and actions utilizing evidence- based treatment modalities.
I completed my doctorate in clinical psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology. Over the past 10 years, I developed a specialty in working with long-term care communities with individuals who are experiencing a wide range of mental health challenges including depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, other severe chronic mental illness, and stress related to aging, medical conditions, and disabilities. Additionally, I was a supervising psychologist where I developed and trained psychology students in the process of completing their doctorate degree.
I believe in developing a solid foundation of trust, safety, respect, and authenticity as the primary catalyst for the beginning process of change. Through humor, challenge, and validation, we will build long lasting changes during our in-person or virtual sessions at Breakthrough Psychotherapy.
Sinda Rosenberg, LCSW
Grief and Loss Therapist
In life as we face a variety of losses. The stories we tell ourselves about those losses shape how we feel about ourselves, define our identities, and influence our perspective of the future.
Specializing in life transitions, grief, and loss, I help my clients re-frame and rewrite their stories. With the use of Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), I modify each modality and create a client-centered approach to helping clients find meaning, gain perspective, and highlight resiliency factors as part of the grieving process. In turn, working together with my clients, we create new self-narratives and cultivate hope about the future.
I received my master’s in social work (MSW) at Loyola University of Chicago after experiencing my own significant losses. Through my experience working with hospice organizations and private practices facilitating grief and loss groups, divorce groups, and seeing individuals and families, I continue to fulfill my purpose in helping others.
I bring my personal experience, educational background, and decades of working with others to each client, meeting them where they are with understanding and compassion. I look forward to working together as you join one of the multiple groups I facilitate, or as your individual/family therapist. Please contact me about working together.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based treatment that helps individuals with high sensitivity and quick reactivity to emotional situations. These individuals may react to emotional situations with ineffective or extreme responses, and often require a longer period of time to return back to baseline. This may feel like an emotional roller coaster or constant state of crisis leaving them feeling out
of control and hopeless.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) transforms an individual’s ways of thinking and behaving that stand in the way of how a they would like to live their life. This involves identifying negative perceptions or thinking mistakes that are affecting behavior.
Comprehensive Behavioral Interventions for Tics (CBIT) is non-pharmacological intervention for tic management that consists training the individual to be more aware of tics, training the individual to do competing behavior when they feel the urge to tic and making changes to day to day activities in ways that can be helpful in reducing tics relationships.
Functional Family Therapy (FFT) is an evidence-based model to work with families to address risk and protective factors within and outside of the family. FFT assesses the family dynamics that have contributed to the child’s behavior, modifies strained family communication, improves parenting skills, and supports positive reinforcement within community contexts and
relationships.
Exposure and Response Prevention therapy (ERP) helps individuals learn to tolerate, rather than get rid of, distressing thoughts or physical sensations and live out a meaningful life despite their Anxiety.
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