Mary Ellen O'Hare-Lavin, Ph. D. earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California and has a private psychotherapy practice in Wilmette, Illinois. Mary Ellen is also a writer, a lecturer, educator, and consultant. Currently she is on the faculty at the Jung Center in Evanston, Illinois and is a retired adjunct professor of Psychology at Oakton Community College in DesPlaines, Illinois.
ACADEMIC DEGREES EARNED
Ph. D. Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, California
M.S. Ed. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
B.A. Siena Heights University, Adrian, Michigan
CERTIFICATION
CADC Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor for state of Illinois
Certified Herrmann Brain Dominance Inventory facilitator
CLINICAL EXPERIENCES
Evanston Hospital, Chapman Center Drug and Alcohol Treatment, Psychology Practicum September l990-December 1990
Rockford Memorial Hospital, Rockford, Illinois, Psychology Internship September 1993-September 1994 Neuropsychological Clinic-individual and group psychotherapy and assessment
Janet Wattles Clinic, Rockford, Illinois, Early Childhood Developmental Assessment
Family Consultation Services (United Way), Rockford, Illinois-individual, couples and family therapy
Post Doctoral Work Experience Supervision, Occupational Clinical Psychologists Ltd, Wilmette, Illinois, 1995-1996
Clinical Case Manager, Value Behavioral Health, Skokie, Illinois, August 1996 to February l997. Assessment, referrals, and on-going psychiatric/substance abuse/EAP clinical case management with treatment facilities and independent providers.
Private Clinical Practice, Occupational Clinical Psychologists Ltd,Wilmette, Illinois-individual, couple and family therapy November 1989-present.
TEACHING EXPERIENCES
Adjunct Faculty, Psychology, College of Lake County, Greyslake, Illinois
Instructor, C.G. Jung Institute, Evanston, Illinois
Lecturer, University of Illinois Internship Program
Faculty Member, Infinity Foundation, Highland Park, Illinois
Lecturer, Social Services Department, Harold Washington College, Chicago, Illinois 2002
Adjunct Faculty, Psychology Department, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL 1999-present
Educator and academic administrator thirty years both in the U.S. and in Europe 1962-1977
Lived, studied, taught and traveled in Europe from 1968-1977
TEAM BUILDING WORKSHOPS FACILITATED
U.S. Navy San Francisco, “Jung’s Typology and Creativity in the Workplace” l995
U.S. Navy Chaplains San Diego, California “Team Building Implementing the Herrmann Brain Dominance Inventory” January 1999
NAVISTAR, MathaMcDonald Communications, “Building Flow in the Workplace” Team Building Implementing the Herrmann Brain Dominance Inventory May 1999
NAVISTAR MathaMcDonald Communications: Revisiting Building Flow in the Workplace Team Building Implementing the Herrmann Brain Dominance Inventory Sept 2000
LECTURES, WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES FACILITATED
PUBLICATIONS
“Ritual in Everyday Life” Transformation Magazine, Jung Institute, Evanston, Illinois
“Being HIV Positive and Being Scapegoated” Crusader Clinic Magazine, Rockford, IL
“The Secret of Roan Inish: A Young Woman’s Journey”, movie review Pilgrimage Magazine
“Meeting Jesse Owens at the Munich Olympics Twenty-Five Years Ago” Pilgrimage Mag
“A Tale Retold: The Use of Fairy Tales and Mythology in Psychotherapy” Voices Magazine, Spring 1997
“The Golden Child/Golden Parent Phenomenon” Voices Magazine, Winter 1998
“Finding a ‘Lower, Deeper Power’ for Women in Recovery” Counseling & Values Journal, April 2000
“Mythologies in Relationships and Relationships in Mythologies” Voices Magazine, Spring 2000
Book Reviews published::
"Relationships in Mythology and Mythology in Relationships" written with Thomas P. Lavin, Ph. D. Quadrant Magazine, New York, New York Summer 2013.
"A Tale Retold" Contact: An Illinois Counseling Association Publication Winter 2016 Vol. 81
INSTRUCTIONAL AUDIOTAPES AND VIDEOTAPES AVAILABLE
“Profiles in Jungian-Christian Dialogue with Tom Lavin and Mary Ellen O’Hare-Lavin”
available through http://www.innerexplorations.com/catjc/catjc4.htm
SPECIALTY EXPERIENCES IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
EAP Clinical Case Management
Mental Health Case Management
Group and individual psychotherapy in Substance Abuse hospital inpatient unit
Group and individual psychotherapy and neuropsychological assessment
Group and individual psychotherapy and psychological testing for the chronic and seriously mentally ill patients
Group and individual psychotherapy with geriatric patients in hospital
Group and individual psychotherapy with rehabilitating patients with stroke and/or brain trauma
Case management and counseling with HIV and AIDS Program
Early Childhood developmental assessment at maternal bonding program
Long term individual, couples, and family therapy
Group psychotherapy involving sex offenders who are incarcerated
Psychodrama group psychotherapy
Behavior Modification with Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
Transsexual/Transvestite Sexual Disorders
PARTICULAR INTERESTS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Archetypal Psychology
Couples Therapy
Corporate Development in Organizations
Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation
Dysfunctional Family Constellations
Dystonia Complications
Feminine Images in the Development of Women
Greek Mythology and its relationship to psychology
Group Therapy
HIV+ and AIDS Struggles
Jungian Psychology
Typology Theory using the HBDI
In the Work Place
In Couples Therapy
Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
Panic Disorders
Sandtray Therapy
Sexual Disorders
Women’s Psychology
ACADEMIC DEGREES EARNED
Ph. D. Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, California
M.S. Ed. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
B.A. Siena Heights University, Adrian, Michigan
CERTIFICATION
CADC Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor for state of Illinois
Certified Herrmann Brain Dominance Inventory facilitator
CLINICAL EXPERIENCES
Evanston Hospital, Chapman Center Drug and Alcohol Treatment, Psychology Practicum September l990-December 1990
Rockford Memorial Hospital, Rockford, Illinois, Psychology Internship September 1993-September 1994 Neuropsychological Clinic-individual and group psychotherapy and assessment
- Chronic and Seriously Mentally Ill Patients-individual and group psychotherapy and psychological testing
- Substance Abuse Clinic-individual and group psychotherapy and psychological testing
Janet Wattles Clinic, Rockford, Illinois, Early Childhood Developmental Assessment
Family Consultation Services (United Way), Rockford, Illinois-individual, couples and family therapy
Post Doctoral Work Experience Supervision, Occupational Clinical Psychologists Ltd, Wilmette, Illinois, 1995-1996
Clinical Case Manager, Value Behavioral Health, Skokie, Illinois, August 1996 to February l997. Assessment, referrals, and on-going psychiatric/substance abuse/EAP clinical case management with treatment facilities and independent providers.
Private Clinical Practice, Occupational Clinical Psychologists Ltd,Wilmette, Illinois-individual, couple and family therapy November 1989-present.
TEACHING EXPERIENCES
Adjunct Faculty, Psychology, College of Lake County, Greyslake, Illinois
Instructor, C.G. Jung Institute, Evanston, Illinois
Lecturer, University of Illinois Internship Program
Faculty Member, Infinity Foundation, Highland Park, Illinois
Lecturer, Social Services Department, Harold Washington College, Chicago, Illinois 2002
Adjunct Faculty, Psychology Department, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL 1999-present
Educator and academic administrator thirty years both in the U.S. and in Europe 1962-1977
Lived, studied, taught and traveled in Europe from 1968-1977
TEAM BUILDING WORKSHOPS FACILITATED
U.S. Navy San Francisco, “Jung’s Typology and Creativity in the Workplace” l995
U.S. Navy Chaplains San Diego, California “Team Building Implementing the Herrmann Brain Dominance Inventory” January 1999
NAVISTAR, MathaMcDonald Communications, “Building Flow in the Workplace” Team Building Implementing the Herrmann Brain Dominance Inventory May 1999
NAVISTAR MathaMcDonald Communications: Revisiting Building Flow in the Workplace Team Building Implementing the Herrmann Brain Dominance Inventory Sept 2000
LECTURES, WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES FACILITATED
- Winnetka Women’s Group, “Feminine Images and Symbols” Winnetka, Illinois l992
- Limina Women’s Group, “Feminine Images and Symbols” Oak Park, Illinois, Spring 1994
- National Convention of MANA (Midwives Association of North America), “Feminine Images of the Divine” 1994
- Cenacle Retreat House Women’s Group, “Feminine Images and Symbols” Chicago, Illinois l994
- Cenacle Retreat House on “Active Imagination” Chicago, Illinois l994
- Drug Rehabilitation Center, Cork Ireland on “Finding the Spirit In the Bottle” l994
- FEMALE (Formerly Employed Mothers at the Leading Edge) “Golden Child/Golden Mother Phenomenon: Working Mothers Who Have Postponed Having Children”Oct 1996
- Support Group of Women’s Counselors “Shifting Energies In the Second Half of Life” Cork, Ireland November l996
- International Association of Counselors Conference “The Golden Child/Golden Parent Phenomenon” Orlando, Florida April l997
- Next Step Referral Organization “The Use of Sandtray in Psychotherapy” Evanston, Il March 1998
- Women’s Spirituality Group “Women’s Spirituality/Men’s Spirituality and the Wisdom to Know the Difference” Cork, Ireland May 1998.
- U.S. Navy Great Lakes, Illinois, Alcohol and Drug Counselors “Women’s Directions in Recovery: Story Telling” July 1998
- Irish Association for Analytical Psychology “Women’s Spirituality/ Men’s Spirituality and the Wisdom to Know the Difference” Dublin, Ireland November l998
- Infinity Foundation “Feminine Spirituality for the Next Millennium” February 1999.
- Harvest Conference XVI “Mysterium Coniunctionis: Inclusive Spirituality for the Millennium”(with Thomas Lavin, Ph. D.) October 1999.
- Infinity Foundation “Inward Bound: Using Oracles for Centering” November 1999 Infinity Foundation “Jung’s Theory of the Unconscious: Using Dreams and Active Imagination” November 1999.
- Jung Institute of Chicago “Golden Child/Golden Parent Phenomenon” February 2000
- Jung Institute Spring Conference “Mysterium Coniunctionis: The Alchemy of Love” April 6-9 2000
- American Academy of Psychotherapists Conference “Finding A ‘Lower’ Deeper Power for Women in Recovery” October 21, 2000
- Infinity Foundation First Annual Conference “Are We Bound by Boundaries: Using Myths and Fairytales As Images of Boundary Crossings” Nov 5, 2000.
- Jung Institute of Chicago “Finding A ‘Lower’ Deeper Power for Women in Recovery” February 2001
- Oakton Community College Women’s Day Conference “Finding A “Lower, Deeper Power for Women” Nov 9, 2001
- Phoenix Friends of Jung Workshop “Bridging Complex, Archetype, and Symbol” April 6, 2002
- Jung Institute Workshop “Bridging Complex, Archetype, and Symbol” June 2002
- Atlanta Friends of Jung “Mysterium Coniunctionis: The Alchemy of Relationship”September 2002
- Jung in Ireland Conference “A Rich Tapestry: Mid-Life and Beyond” Galway, Ireland March 1-9, 2003
- Department of the Navy “Women’s Journey in Addiction” Great Lakes, Il. Aug 19, ‘03
- Women’s Exchange “Finding a Lower, Deeper Power” February 2004
- Oakton Community College Emeritus Program “Finding a Lower, Deeper Power” October 2004
- Oakton Community College Women’s Institute “Finding a Lower, Deeper Power” February 14 & 17, 2005
- Jung Center Evanston, Il. "Women's Journeys Toward a Deeper Power" April 11 & 12. 2008
- University San Diego "Finding a Lower Deeper Powr" January 2009
- Jung Center Evanston, Il "The Secret of Roan Inish" film discussion March 13, 2009
- Jung Center Evanston, Il. Lecture and Workshop with Thomas P. Lavin, Ph. D. "Jung's Inclusive Intimacy Map for Relationship" April 2009
- Jung Center Evanston, Il. Red Book Discussion. November 9, 2009.
- Jung Center Evanston, Il. "Jung's Inclusive Intimacy Map for Relationship: Mysterium Coniunctionis" May 8 + 9, 2009
- Jung on the Hudson Reinbeck, New York Lecture and Workshop with Thomas P. Lavin, Ph. D. "Finding Myths in the Web of Addiction: Male/Female Myths of Addiction and Transformation" July 30, 2009.
- Jung Center Evanston, Il. Jung's Red Book: Lecture and Discussion "Mandalas, Mandorlas, and Yantras" and "Active Imagination" two Fridays March 19 and March 26, 2010
- Jung Center Evanston, Il Movie viewing and discussion "Up in the Air" May 7, 2010
- Jung Center Evanston, Il. "The Meaning of Infidelity and Sexual Addiction from a Depth Psychological Perpective" May 14, 2010
- Jung Center Evanston, Il. "Mythology of Depth: From Aesklepios to the Greeks and Romans" September 10, 2010
- Jung Center Evanston, Il "A Tale of Two Cities: Zurich and Chicago: A Tale of Two Women, Sabina Spielrein and Edith Rockefeller McCormick October 14 +15, 2010
- Jung Center Evanston, Il. "Typology: An Exploration of Jung's Theories of Psychic Energy in the Celebration of Personal Development" February 10 + 11, 2011
- Oakton Community College Women’s Institute DesPlaines, Il. “Crossings: Liminality for Aging and Beyond” April 1, 2011
- Jung Center Evanston, Il "Liminality: Women in transition at midlife" Septemeber 16 and 23, 2011
- Jung Center Evanston, Il. "Hildegard of Bingen Has a Message for Us Today" November 18, 2011
- Jung Center Evanston, Il. "Sand Castles: A Lecture About Using Sandplay for Growth" March 23, 2012
- Pacifica Graduate Institute Study of Myth Symposium Sponsored by Joseph Campbell Foundation, “Aging Love: Relationships in Mythology and Mythology in Relationships.”August 31, September 1 and 2, 2012.
- Rosecrance Recovery Center, Rockford, Illinois, “Finding a Lower Deeper Power” September 6, 2012
- LookingGlass Theatre, Chicago, Illinois. Panel discussion about Mary Zimmerman’s play Metamorphoses October 28, 2012.
- Jung Center Evanston, Il “Relationships in Mythology and Mythology in Relationships” November 2, 2012.
- Oakton Community College faculty orientation "The Importance of Greek and Roman Mythology in the study of Psychology" August 14, 2013.
- Jung Center Evanston, Il. "Sandtray and its Uses in Psychotherapy" April 4, 2014
- Illinois Counseling Association Conference, Schaumburg, Il. "Sandtray and Its Uses in Psychotherapy" November 14 + 15, 2014
PUBLICATIONS
“Ritual in Everyday Life” Transformation Magazine, Jung Institute, Evanston, Illinois
“Being HIV Positive and Being Scapegoated” Crusader Clinic Magazine, Rockford, IL
“The Secret of Roan Inish: A Young Woman’s Journey”, movie review Pilgrimage Magazine
“Meeting Jesse Owens at the Munich Olympics Twenty-Five Years Ago” Pilgrimage Mag
“A Tale Retold: The Use of Fairy Tales and Mythology in Psychotherapy” Voices Magazine, Spring 1997
“The Golden Child/Golden Parent Phenomenon” Voices Magazine, Winter 1998
“Finding a ‘Lower, Deeper Power’ for Women in Recovery” Counseling & Values Journal, April 2000
“Mythologies in Relationships and Relationships in Mythologies” Voices Magazine, Spring 2000
Book Reviews published::
- Jung and the Alchemical Imagination. by Jeffrey Raff (2000) published in “The Library Journal of Analytical Psychology.” San Francisco.
- The Practice of Dream Healing: Bringing Ancient Greek Mysteries Into Modern Medicine By Edward Tick (2001) published in “Voices Magazine”
- Jung and the Alchemical Imagination by Jeffrey Raff (2000) published in “Psychological Perspectives: A Semiannual Journal of Jungian Thought” Los Angeles.
"Relationships in Mythology and Mythology in Relationships" written with Thomas P. Lavin, Ph. D. Quadrant Magazine, New York, New York Summer 2013.
"A Tale Retold" Contact: An Illinois Counseling Association Publication Winter 2016 Vol. 81
INSTRUCTIONAL AUDIOTAPES AND VIDEOTAPES AVAILABLE
“Profiles in Jungian-Christian Dialogue with Tom Lavin and Mary Ellen O’Hare-Lavin”
available through http://www.innerexplorations.com/catjc/catjc4.htm
SPECIALTY EXPERIENCES IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
EAP Clinical Case Management
Mental Health Case Management
Group and individual psychotherapy in Substance Abuse hospital inpatient unit
Group and individual psychotherapy and neuropsychological assessment
Group and individual psychotherapy and psychological testing for the chronic and seriously mentally ill patients
Group and individual psychotherapy with geriatric patients in hospital
Group and individual psychotherapy with rehabilitating patients with stroke and/or brain trauma
Case management and counseling with HIV and AIDS Program
Early Childhood developmental assessment at maternal bonding program
Long term individual, couples, and family therapy
Group psychotherapy involving sex offenders who are incarcerated
Psychodrama group psychotherapy
Behavior Modification with Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
Transsexual/Transvestite Sexual Disorders
PARTICULAR INTERESTS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Archetypal Psychology
Couples Therapy
Corporate Development in Organizations
Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation
Dysfunctional Family Constellations
Dystonia Complications
Feminine Images in the Development of Women
Greek Mythology and its relationship to psychology
Group Therapy
HIV+ and AIDS Struggles
Jungian Psychology
Typology Theory using the HBDI
In the Work Place
In Couples Therapy
Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
Panic Disorders
Sandtray Therapy
Sexual Disorders
Women’s Psychology