Dana Abbey, MA, LCPC
Franklin Park
Summary
Seasoned psychotherapist with a background in providing individual and group therapy sessions for diverse populations. Proven skills in implementing treatment plans, evaluating patient progress, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. Strengths include active listening, empathy, resilience, and strong communication. Previous roles demonstrate positive outcomes in client mental health improvement and consistent professional development to stay current on therapeutic techniques.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Outpatient Psychotherapist
Grow Therapy
Chicago
06.2025 - Current
- Provide virtual psychotherapy services as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, credentialed through the State of Illinois and paneled through major insurance carriers.
Partial Hospitalization Senior Primary Therapist III
Eating Recovery & Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center
Oak Brook
10.2019 - Current
- Maintain excellent therapeutic rapport with patients to create a safe, challenging, and nurturing environment conducive to personal growth.
- Complete clinical history, suicide risk assessments, and safety planning to develop individualized treatment plans for patients with eating disorders, mood & anxiety disorders, post traumatic stress disorders, and substance use disorders.
- Conduct individual, family, and crisis psychotherapy sessions.
- Provide case management services, communicating with referral sources, outpatient providers, schools, DCFS, and families.
- Lead Exposure Response Prevention and process group therapy.
- Work collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team of psychiatrists, therapists, dieticians, nurses, utilization review, and behavioral health clinicians to ensure integrated patient care.
- Proficient in technology and state laws required to conduct virtual telehealth therapy.
Residential Primary & Family Therapist
Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center
Lemont
03.2016 - 08.2019
- Conducted individual & family assessments to develop individualized treatment plans specific to co-occurring mood disorders, eating disorders, substance use disorders, and personality disorders.
- Provided individual & family therapy sessions with case management to residents and their families.
- Lead psychoeducation and process group therapy.
- Worked collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team of psychiatrists, therapists, nurses, behavioral health staff to ensure integrated team treatment and a therapeutic milieu.
- Established rapport with residents to create both individual therapeutic growth and a recovery focused milieu.
Clinical Program Manager
Adolescent Growth
Lombard
04.2015 - 01.2016
- Directed and supervised a 10-bed adolescent residential treatment program specializing in dual diagnoses and addictions.
- Lead a multidisciplinary treatment team of psychiatrists, therapists, medical assistants, academic coordinators, and floor staff.
- Supervised Licensed Professional Counselors (LPC) and Marriage & Family Therapists (MFT).
- Conducted crisis intervention, initial intake, individual, group, and family therapy.
- Performed administrative duties such as ordering supplies, staff schedules, petty cash, organizing resident outings, and interviewing/hiring.
- Coordinated with the Human Resource, Utilization Review, and Quality Assurance departments with the parent company's corporate office headquartered in California.
Outpatient Psychotherapist
Center for Therapeutic Services & Psychodiagnostics
McHenry
10.2011 - 05.2015
- Provided therapy services as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, credentialed through the State of Illinois and paneled through major insurance carriers.
- Conducted comprehensive initial diagnostic intakes and authored custom treatment plans based on the client's individual needs.
- Provided crisis intervention, brief psychotherapy, and long-term psychotherapy for Axis I and Axis II disorders.
- Maintained a biopsychosocial approach to psychotherapy for children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families.
- Proctored for standardized psychological testing, including cognitive (WISC-IV, WAIS-IV, WJ-IV, WIAT, WRAT), objective personality (MMPI-II, MMPI-A, MPMI, MCMI-III, Beck Inventories), and projective personality testing (TAT, HTP).
Psychoeducational Consultant
Center for Psychological Services
Northfield
02.2012 - 08.2014
- Collaborated with a multi-disciplinary assessment team comprised of school administrators, social workers, occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech & language pathologists.
- Conducted Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessments for children aged 2-5 years old.
- Administered standardized tests for school aged children, including the WISC-IV, WIAT-III, UNIT, WJ-Achievement, WPPSI-III, KABC-II, and BSRA.
- Authored psychological reports regarding the cognitive, academic, social, and play functioning of children assessed.
- Presented Psychoeducational Reports at IEP meetings to determine eligibility for special education services and treatment plans.
- Enacted RTI and PBIS interventions (Tiers 1,2, and 3).
Pre Doctoral Internship
Bridge View and Challenger Therapeutic Day Schools
Niles
08.2010 - 08.2011
- Administered long term individual psychotherapy to children and adolescents diagnosed with severe mental illness, pervasive developmental disorders, and trauma.
- Conducted systems oriented psychotherapy sessions with families of individual clients.
- Co-lead group psychotherapy sessions with behavioral, emotional, and organically impaired children and adolescents.
- Presented cases at bi-monthly seminars led by the school's consulting psychiatrist.
- Completed psychosocial diagnostic reports.
- Authored and presented clinical reports for multi-disciplinary IEP meetings.
- Attended weekly clinical, milieu, and medication review meetings.
- Provided psychological and behavioral consultation to academic team regarding students.
- Participated in clinical rotations of the school's 24 hour crisis line intervention program.
Advanced Psychotherapy Practicum
Psychological Solutions Institute
Lisle
09.2009 - 07.2010
- Conducted diagnostic intake sessions.
- Authored treatment recommendations and reports based on the diagnostic interview.
- Administered Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy with clientele diagnosed with diverse clinical pathology, including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and personality disorders.
- Received specialized didactic training in third wave Cognitive Behavioral Therapies, including Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, Functional Analytic Psychotherapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
- Recorded thorough progress notes of individual clients.
Social Skills Group Coordinator
Naperville Pediatric Psychology & Development Center
Naperville
04.2009 - 06.2010
- Co-lead adolescent girls (ages 11-12) social skills groups for mood disorders with the clinic's supervisor.
- Co-lead Early Learners (ages 5-7) social skills groups for behavior disorders and autistic spectrum disorders with the clinic's supervisor.
- Co-lead boys (ages 9-11) social skills group for pervasive developmental disorders with the clinic's supervisor.
- Recorded progress notes of individual clients.
- Developed new curriculum for upcoming social skills groups.
- Performed administrative duties, including reception, scheduling, insurance verification, and billing & payments.
Psychotherapy Practicum
Psychological Solutions Institute
Lisle
09.2008 - 09.2009
- Conducted diagnostic intake sessions.
- Authored treatment recommendations and reports based on the diagnostic interview.
- Administered Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy with clientele diagnosed with diverse clinical issues, primarily mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and personality disorders.
- Received specialized didactic training in third wave Cognitive Behavioral Therapies, including Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, Functional Analytic Psychotherapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
Psychodiagnostic Practicum
Neurobehavioral Health Connections
Barrington
09.2007 - 06.2008
- Assisted in clinical case evaluations and intakes.
- Assessed treatment and diagnostic needs on an individual case basis.
- Administered cognitive, objective, and projective psychological tests.
- Integrated clinical interview and diagnostic testing into complete battery reports.
- Made treatment recommendations based on diagnostic findings.
Neurophysical Trainer
The Drake Institute of Behavioral Medicine
Vista
01.2005 - 12.2005
- Assisted in clinical case evaluations and intakes to the Drake Institute treatment program.
- Administered neurofeedback treatments to patients with various diagnoses including attentional, pervasive developmental, auditory processing, affective, and behavioral disorders.
- Proficient in the international 10-20 system of electrode placement.
- Recorded quantitative electroencephalograph (QEEG) brain maps for analysis at the University of Tennessee.
- Conducted biofeedback treatments for patients diagnosed with stress related disorders.
- Supervised patients as a certified trainer of the Fast ForWord program for auditory processing disorder.
- Oversaw patient progress during sessions of the Captain's Log Cognitive Training System.
- Administered the T.O.V.A.
- Participated in an intensive on-going training schedule that included self neurofeedback, biofeedback, auditory processing, and cognitive training sessions.
Field Placement Undergraduate Externship
The Family & Child Therapy Center
Racine
09.2003 - 12.2003
- Communicated concerns of patients to psychiatrists and therapists on staff.
- Observed pharmaceutical representatives from Pfizer and Glaxo-Smith Kline promoting various psychiatric medications to the clinical staff.
- Obtained the opportunity to shadow the clinic psychiatrist during a visit to an inpatient adolescent psychiatry ward.
- Maintained the clinic medical filing system and mailings.
Departmental Fellowship
Carthage College Department of Neuroscience
Kenosha
09.2002 - 05.2003
- Sustained assigned living quarters of departmental rats, including unsocialized individual, partially socialized, and complex socialized environments.
- Cleaned and prepared laboratory equipment for study.
- Participated in both independent and ongoing research.
Education
Master of Arts - Clinical Psychology, Child & Family Endorsement
Illinois School of Professional Psychology
Schaumburg, ILBachelor of Arts - Psychology & Neuroscience, Biology
Carthage College
Kenosha, WisconsinLicense Number
Illinois License Number 180.008249
Certification
- Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP)
- Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) Certification
- Handle with Care Behavior Management System Certification
- Heartsaver CPR & AED Certification, American Heart Association
Timeline
Outpatient Psychotherapist
Grow Therapy
06.2025 - Current
Partial Hospitalization Senior Primary Therapist III
Eating Recovery & Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center
10.2019 - Current
Residential Primary & Family Therapist
Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center
03.2016 - 08.2019
Clinical Program Manager
Adolescent Growth
04.2015 - 01.2016
Psychoeducational Consultant
Center for Psychological Services
02.2012 - 08.2014
Outpatient Psychotherapist
Center for Therapeutic Services & Psychodiagnostics
10.2011 - 05.2015
Pre Doctoral Internship
Bridge View and Challenger Therapeutic Day Schools
08.2010 - 08.2011
Advanced Psychotherapy Practicum
Psychological Solutions Institute
09.2009 - 07.2010
Social Skills Group Coordinator
Naperville Pediatric Psychology & Development Center
04.2009 - 06.2010
Psychotherapy Practicum
Psychological Solutions Institute
09.2008 - 09.2009
Psychodiagnostic Practicum
Neurobehavioral Health Connections
09.2007 - 06.2008
Neurophysical Trainer
The Drake Institute of Behavioral Medicine
01.2005 - 12.2005
Field Placement Undergraduate Externship
The Family & Child Therapy Center
09.2003 - 12.2003
Departmental Fellowship
Carthage College Department of Neuroscience
09.2002 - 05.2003
Master of Arts - Clinical Psychology, Child & Family Endorsement
Illinois School of Professional Psychology
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology & Neuroscience, Biology
Carthage College