About Me
Lisa Dadabo | LCSW CADC
PRACTICE OWNER AND CLINICIAN
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Drug and Alcohol Counselor with 8 years of Clinical Therapy experience, and 16 years total of experience in Community Mental Health, Non-Profit Social Service Work and Substance Use Disorder Services.
I received my Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Oberlin College in 2002, and received my Master of Social Work from the Jane Addams College of Social Work at UIC in 2012.
Much of my work is grounded in a relational, trauma-sensitive framework, and I am trained in several evidence-based practices, including Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
I focused in graduate school on learning more about evidence-based practice for trauma and trauma-related disorders, and on community-level interventions for mental health, however I believe that individual health and community health are inextricably connected. This led me to Harm Reduction philosophies and to Existentialist approaches to therapy in the vein of Irvin Yalom and Viktor Frankl.
I currently work in medical social work in addition to my clinical practice, and I believe strongly that all people deserve therapy services that respect their autonomy as well as their need to experience growth and change guided in part by a therapist.
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Why Foxglove & Bee?
The Foxglove carries many associations and symbols - one is “I have more ambition for you than I do for myself”, and in this practice the therapy relationship is centered on a creating the healing space needed for change and growth.
The Bee is the Bee Hummingbird, a pollinating partner of the Foxglove. I chose this symbol because Hummingbirds represent co-existing beauty, strength and fragility, and the pair represent the inter-reliance that makes both stronger.
Therapy at its best is a healing and safe relationship, and that is the work we strive toward each day at Foxglove and Bee.
