About Ann

Ann is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. She is certified in substance abuse by the Illinois Department of Alcohol and Other Substance Abuse and a sponsor for continuing education (CEUS) in the State of Illinois for social workers, professional counselors (applied for) and certified addiction professionals. Ann is sole proprietor of Healaheart, Inc. Counseling for Individuals and Couples.

Ann, MSW, maintains an interactive website for those struggling with codependency using a spiritual approach to recovery offering workshops and teleclasses. She can be found at www.loveapproval.com

Specialties include: individual and couple counseling, parenting, communication skill training, depression, anxiety, alcohol abuse, codependency, life transitions, women's issues, divorce, bereavement and death of a child, anger management, stress management, inner child issues, mind/body connections and spirituality healing and enrichment.

Ann offers communications workshops on communications skills using principals of non-violent communication (NVC) training developed by Marshall Rosenberg, PhD. She is a member of the Alliance for Non-Violent Communication. Currently she is piloting and developing a 10 week program teaching non violent communication in a grade school. Ann is a speaker and interactive workshop facilitator.