Perspectives Counseling Centers

We are a private outpatient clinic, featuring over 35 educated and professional therapists of varied specialties and expertise — each graduate level trained, experienced and state licensed. No matter what your need, there is a caring, experienced therapist who can help. You need not walk alone. Our services include individual and group therapy for children,

The Human Magnet Syndrome: Why We Love the People Who Hurt Us

“Codependents meet, they are enveloped in a magnetic and seductive ‘love force,’ it begins like a fairy-tale, but later unfolds into a painful ‘seesaw of love/pain and hope/disappointment’. The soul mate of the Codependent’s dreams becomes the Emotional Manipulator of his/her nightmares. This book is about real-life relationships – common everyday relationships that many of us have experienced

Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He’ll Change

“The #1 New York Times bestseller that asks: ‘ARE YOU A WOMAN WHO LOVES TOO MUCH?’ Do you find yourself attracted again and again to troubled, distant, moody men — while ‘nice guys’ seem boring? Do you obsess over men who are emotionally unavailable, addicted to work, hobbies, alcohol, or other women? Do you neglect your friends

Finding Your Way Home: A Soul Survivor Kit by Melody Beattie

“Melody Beattie gives you the tools to discover the magnificence and splendor of your being.” — Deepak Chopra, author of Jesus and Buddha “Beattie understands being overboard, which helps her throw bestselling lifelines to those still adrift.” — Time magazine

Hope for Today

Hope for Today is about “daily thoughts and meditations on living in a family with alcoholism.”

Courage to Change

“The daily meditations, reminders, and prayers from Courage to Change help families encourage their recovering alcoholic loved one.”

Boundaries and Relationships: Knowing, Protecting and Enjoying the Self

“More than personal boundaries, this book is really about relationships- healthy and unhealthy ones. Here bestselling author and psychotherapist Charles Whitfield blends theories and dynamics from several disciplines into practical knowledge and actions that your can use in your relationships right now. This comprehensive book opens with clear definitions and descriptions of boundaries, a self-assessment

My Mother/Myself by Nancy Friday

“When Nancy Friday began her research for My Mother/My Self in the early 1970’s no work existed that explored the unique interaction between mother and daughter. Today psychotherapists throughout the world acknowledge that if women are to be able to love without possessing, to find work that fulfills them, and to discover their full sexuality,

Old Irving Park Community Clinic

“We provide free quality health care to the medically uninsured in the Chicago area by individual volunteers from the medical community, partnership with local community institutional treatment providers and other appropriate individual and institutional volunteers in a manner dedicated to the respect and dignity of the persons served. Our Vision We envision a community that

Adult Children of Alcoholics World Service Organization

“Adult Children of Alcoholics is an anonymous Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition program of women and men who grew up in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional homes. We meet with each other in a mutually respectful, safe environment and acknowledge our common experiences. We discover how childhood affected us in the past and influences us in the present (see The