MATTHEW SELEKMAN, MSW, LCSW (Private Practice)

MATTHEW SELEKMAN, MSW, LCSW (Private Practice)

Helping Individuals, Couples, and Families Find Solutions

Collaborative Strengths-Based Treatment Philosophy:

I believe all clients have the strengths, resources, and self-healing capacities to change, and truly are the experts on their own life situations. My expertise as a therapist is in tapping my clients’ strengths to co-construct solutions together. As co-collaborators, my clients are invited to have the lead voice in identifying their goals, choosing from many options which self-empowerment tools and change strategies they wish to try, and determine what key resource people should participate in our sessions to rapidly co-create a context for change.

Counseling Specialty Areas:

  • Self-harming behaviors
  • Bulimia and binge-eating
  • Substance abuse
  • Family and couple conflict and communications difficulties
  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Anger management
  • Oppositional defiant behaviors
  • School disruptive behaviors

Counseling Services:

  • Online tele-health counseling
  • Individual therapy
  • Couples therapy
  • Family therapy
  • Solution-Oriented Parenting Groups
  • Stress-Busters’ Leadership Groups for Teens
  • Brief Couples Therapy Groups
  • Mindfulness meditation training
  • Art therapy
Office Location:
5225 Old Orchard Road, Suite 26A
Skokie, IL 60077
Contact:
Telephone: 847-226-4219
E-Mail: ms@partners4change.net
Office Hours:
Thursdays:  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Saturdays: 8:00 am – 6:00 pm
Additional hours by appointment only.
Whats New?

Due to popular worldwide demand for a longer more intensive training experience in our model, our Partners team is now offering a 5-Day and 4-Day Advanced International Certificate Training Program in Collaborative Strengths-Based Brief Family Therapy. In addition to lots of videotape examples of major therapeutic tools and strategies of the Collaborative Strengths-Based Brief Family Therapy approach, there will be both daily live couple and family therapy consultations and skill-building exercises. Finally, we will cover effective strategies for working with some of the toughest clinical dilemmas, such as: long-term self-injurers, suicidal, violent, eating disorder, heavy substance abusing clients, high-conflict couples, families with multiple symptom-bearers, post-divorce conflict families, and more. Click on the LEVEL I and II training descriptions and topics covered below.

Matthew’s book Pathways to Change: Brief Therapy with Difficult Adolescents, Second Edition was just published in Korean. A copy was presented to me at my workshop in Seoul, which was hosted by the Korean Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Association.

Matthew’s new book: Working with High-Risk Adolescents: A Collaborative Strengths-Based Therapy Approach, has been published by Guilford Press, Inc.

To view a downloadable flyer of my book, click here