by Bukky Adeyinka | Mar 17, 2020 | News
UPDATE: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and safety considerations for all of our community members, Live Oak continues to offer primarily telehealth services. If you would like to explore working with one of our therapists, please fill out an intake form and a member of...
by Corina Mattson | Jul 20, 2019 | News
Dear friends and colleagues, I am writing to you on July 20th, 2019. Today is exactly 15 years from the day that Bruce Koff and Jeff Levy incorporated Live Oak as a business. What started as an organization of 2 therapists and co-owners, has grown into a clinical...
by Joelle Spiegel | Apr 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
Parenting brings with it challenges, quandaries, hilarity, and joy. Hopefully, joy wins out and the quandaries are manageable. Sometimes, however, our children present us with a situation for which we may have no preparation, no background, and which may leave us...
by Joelle Spiegel | Jan 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
The day I gave birth for the first time, my oldest child emerged into the room, into the world, and into my arms, pink and blonde and perfect. “It’s a girl!” the doctor announced somewhere beyond my haze of shock and exhaustion. “You have a girl.” My husband and I...
by Andreina Phelan | Jul 4, 2018 | Articles
Several Live Oak staff members have been featured in recent publications, including books by Hart Ginsburg of Digital Tapestries and a new counseling issues textbook. Echoes: Yellow Balloon An interview with Kelly George, LCPC, was published in Echoes: Yellow Balloon...
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by Jeff Levy | Feb 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
No one wants to feel pain. At least that’s true for most of us. In fact, a good number of us make the decision to enter psychotherapy to alleviate pain. As a therapist, I’ve also been in the position of wanting to support my clients in easing the pain they are...
by Jeff Levy | Jan 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
The process of therapy can be daunting, especially when we don’t really understand what it’s “supposed” to look like or why sitting in a room with another person somehow helps us make lasting changes. Using metaphors as part of the psychotherapy process is not...
by Jeff Levy | Jan 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
I was recently thinking about sessions over the course of the last few weeks that went smoothly, and those where I felt like we hit some bumps or that we stalled. I tried to remember the things I did or questions I asked that I thought helped all of us in the room...
by Jeff Levy | Jan 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
I was reading an article in the Chicago Tribune today about Barry Manilow, his recent public “coming out,” and acknowledgment of his marriage to his partner of 40 years. The article talked about the mixed reactions of the public ranging from support to questions...
by Jeff Levy | Jan 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
I was talking with a colleague who recently completed her graduate degree in counseling. We were discussing one of her cases—a young man who had experienced considerable trauma as a teenager. Her client knew he had experienced the trauma, but didn’t have clear...
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