Sound Mind Counseling

Founded in 1951, The Josselyn Center is a community mental health organization that serves individuals and families. It offers outpatient psychiatric, consultation and referral services. The center also provides crisis intervention, case management, and psychological screening and assessment solutions. The Josselyn Center additionally offers treatments for children and adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorders. It also provides speaking services for schools, companies and organizations on a variety of mental health-related topics. The center serves more than 75,000 individuals in suburban Chicago communities. It organizes various fundraising events and conducts an online screening program. The center offers family and group counseling services for substance abuse problems. The Josselyn Center is located in Northfield, Ill.

Experienced, warm, skilled, realistic psychologist with multiple areas of expertise. Dr. Allison Ackerman, PhD., is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than 20 years of experience helping individuals, couples, and families to experience more well-being, more satisfaction and more joy in their lives and in their relationships. She is skilled in working with a wide variety of issues including anxiety, depression, relational dissatisfaction, work issues, chronic and terminal illness in the personal as well as in the family context, parenting issues around children with normative and non-normative developmental needs, trauma and PTSD, grief, and loss-to name just a few! If you are looking for a warm, real, practical, and realistic psychologist with a depth and wealth of experience, please call Dr. Ackerman.