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Susan Silver, MBA, MA, LCPC
Susan Silver, MBA, MA, LCPC

Susan is a Gottman Institute-trained couples specialist who also treats adults in every stage of life, helping them understand themselves better and feel more balanced, healthy, and confident. She specializes in helping people transition through and face the challenges and rewards related to: dating, marriage, and bringing children into their lives, as well as in career changes, affairs, divorce, illness, and bereavement. Susan also has extensive experience in family advocacy, including adoption, surrogacy, learning differences, and disability.

Susan works to help clients make sense of their relationships, emotions, and their changing view of the world. She employs a variety of methods, often combining multiple schools of thought in order to best serve her clients. She serves whatever role her clients need – a sounding board, a champion, or a supportive presence. Her goal is to create a warm, collaborative, empathetic, and genuine environment that is conducive to drawing out insight and inviting change.

Susan earned her master’s degree in Community Counseling from Argosy University in Chicago and an MBA in Organizational and Psychological Behavior from Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Her clinical fellowships included roles in trauma, abuse, and the LGBTQI community.

In her free time, Susan is a presenter and mentor for Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project. She volunteers for a number of non-profits, while also serving as the founder of the Illinois Chapter of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. She enjoys spending time with her family, hiking, snowshoeing, playing tennis, watching movies, and learning new languages.

Anne Redlich, LCSW
Anne Redlich, LCSW

Anne Redlich is a seasoned therapist with over 40 years of experience in the mental health profession. Anne has worked in a variety of settings ranging from residential treatment facilities for children and adolescents all the way to private practice. Anne’s focus here at Wellington Counseling Group is on adults, couples, and families. Anne understands the challenges that come over the developmental trajectory in one’s life, from birth through marriage, raising children, and the loss of loved ones, to facing end of life for oneself. She brings her expertise in many therapeutic modalities to help her clients cope with these challenges and grow with new understanding and greater resilience. Anne is particularly interested in helping her clients to bring unconscious material into awareness toward the goal of understanding oneself more deeply. She is an expert in using dreams in psychotherapy and offers dreamwork as an option to her clients.

Anne earned her master’s degree at the University of Chicago in clinical social work. She went on to study in the psychoanalytic training programs at both the Chicago Jung Institute and the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. Anne also has experience working with mindfulness and in cognitive behavioral therapy. In her spare time, Anne likes to take long walks in nature. Anne also loves to go to hear live music, see films, and visit art exhibits. She loves to cook and share her food with friends and family, as well.

Katelyn Kosinski, ALMFT
Katelyn Kosinski, ALMFT

Katelyn Kosinski is an Associate Level Marriage and Family Therapist. Katelyn believes that we can reach our greatest potential and experience peace when we learn how to have healthy relationships with ourselves and others. She is passionate about helping couples, families, and individuals shift from surviving-to-thriving by breaking the cycles that have kept them stuck. Katelyn does this by first identifying their personal needs and then homing in on the strengths that all individuals innately possess. With couples, she utilizes Emotionally Focused Therapy, along with Gottman and Attachment-based techniques. In her work with individuals, she incorporates mindfulness strategies alongside CBT and narrative therapy, to help clients grow and become more confident in themselves and in their relationships. She is also a 100-hour-certified mindfulness meditation instructor.

In her free time, Katelyn enjoys playing outside with her puppy, visiting national parks, stand-up paddle boarding, watercolor painting, and cozying up with some tea and a good non-fiction book.

Brandon Arbuckle, LMFT
Brandon Arbuckle, LMFT

Brandon Arbuckle is a licensed marriage and family therapist with more than two decades of experience in private practice. His primary focus is working with couples on conflict resolution and emotional dysregulation between partners. With a background in the intersection of neuroscience and change in couples, Brandon understands how the body responds to trauma and emotional distress as well as the effect this can have on the lives of those in intimate relationships. He works to help couples develop greater and more secure emotional connections, as well as identify opportunities for growth in their relationships.

Brandon is a certified facilitator of Prepare/Enrich™, as well as a supervisor approved by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. He regularly supervises and consults with those seeking to become an LMFT in Illinois.

Brandon earned his Ph.D. in Pastoral Theology, Personality and Culture from Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, a Methodist Seminary on the campus of Northwestern University. The field of Pastoral Theology is interdisciplinary, with influence from clinical psychology, psychology of religion and anthropology.

In his free time, Brandon enjoys watching movies, art, playing baseball with his two children, and exploring the varied cuisine offered by the world’s most delightful city: Chicago.

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