Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, Life Coaching
Adults, Teens, Children, Couples, Parents

Services Offered

• Psychotherapy (or for more detail, click here)

• Psychoanalysis (or for more detail, click here)

• Life Coaching (or for more detail, click here)

• Consulting

• Speaking
  

• Fees and Policies

Psychotherapy and Counseling

Psychotherapy is method of talking therapy that is used to help people understand themselves more fully, alleviate inner suffering, solve problems and/or manage their lives and relationships better. Psychotherapy can treat depression, anxiety, eating disorders, phobias, substance abuse, relationship problems and many other painful issues.

Psychotherapy is limited to conversations. It does not include drug therapy or other physiological treatment though it can be used along with other therapies and treatment methods.

Psychotherapists do not have to be medically qualified in order to provide this type of treatment but they should be clinically trained in psychotherapeutic methods.

Both Dr. Mark Smaller and Kim Richardson provide psychotherapy and are licensed by the states of Illinois and Michigan to do so.

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Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a highly specialized form of psychotherapy. Click here to find out about psychoanalysis and how it can help.

Dr Smaller is certified in Adult and Child Psychoanalysis through the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalyis.

Life Coaching

At "Come In and Talk", life coaching is offered face-to-face or by telephone anywhere in the world. Kim Richardson is a general life coach who also focuses on coaching new mothers.

To find out more about Life Coaching or New Mother Coaching with Kim Richardson, please visit kimarichardson.com/coaching.html or newmothercoach.com

"Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.

Professional coaches provide an ongoing partnership designed to help clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Coaches help people improve their performances and enhance the quality of their lives.

Coaches are trained to listen, to observe and to customize their approach to individual client needs. They seek to elicit solutions and strategies from the client; they believe the client is naturally creative and resourceful. The coach's job is to provide support to enhance the skills, resources, and creativity that the client already has. (More about coaching...)"

Coaching is not Therapy!

Coaching can be distinguished from therapy in a number of ways. First, coaching is a profession that supports personal and professional growth and development based on individual-initiated change in pursuit of specific actionable outcomes. These outcomes are linked to personal or professional success. Coaching is forward moving and future focused. Therapy, on the other hand, deals with healing pain, dysfunction and conflict within an individual or a relationship between two or more individuals. The focus is often on resolving difficulties arising from the past which hamper an individual's emotional functioning in the present, improving overall psychological functioning, and dealing with present life and work circumstances in more emotionally healthy ways. Therapy outcomes often include improved emotional/feeling states. While positive feelings/emotions may be a natural outcome of coaching, the primary focus is on creating actionable strategies for achieving specific goals in one's work or personal life. The emphasis in a coaching relationship is on action, accountability and follow through (ICF).

Kim Richardson, M.A. offers life coaching to anyone wishing to make changes, achieve results or negotiate transitions in their personal or professional life. She is a licensed counselor and psychotherapist who is in the final phase of undergoing certification as a Professional Life Coach through an ICF (International Coach Federation) accredited institution.

To find out more about Life Coaching or New Mother Coaching with Kim Richardson, please visit kimarichardson.com/coaching.html or newmothercoach.com

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