Epijennetics Counseling & Consulting

Established in 1978, the Community Youth Network is a nonprofit counseling center. It serves the mental health care needs of individuals, couples and families in Lake, Cook, Kenosha and McHenry counties in Illinois and southern Wisconsin. The center provides children, individual, couple and family therapies and trauma assessment services for physical and sexual abuse victims. It also offers Christian counseling and case and anger management services. Additionally, the Community Youth Network provides play therapy and outreach-based youth counseling services, as well as professional and community education and training programs. It employs licensed psychotherapists, social workers, volunteers and counselors. The Community Youth Network is located in Grayslake, Ill.

An experienced licensed clinical psychologist.When life gets overwhelming, it helps to have someone to turn to. Dr. Susan R. Smith is willing to listen to you and help you work through your problems. A licensed clinical psychologist with more than 25 years of experience, Dr. Smith's goal is to offer older adolescent and adult clients assistance with making, and working through, life changes. Because every person has his or her own unique personality and coping techniques, she develops personalized treatment plans that incorporate the client's strengths, available resources, and ultimate goals based on cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal process, problem solving, and positive psychology clinical models.Working in both life and career coach capacities, Dr. Smith helps people achieve a balance between work and everyday life, offers assistance for people struggling with health-related life-style changes and career transitions. She forms positive partnerships with her clients to work toward achieving the desired goals. Clinical specialty areas include: Eating disorders and weight management Relationship conflicts Anxiety Stress Retirement/aging concerns Career and life coaching Equine assisted psychotherapy on a limited basisPlease call today to find out more about our services, or to schedule your appointment.