Creative Friendship Training

Beginning Saturday, September 21, 2013

Saturdays from 4-5 pm

(September 21-December 14; no training November 30)

1702 Sherman Avenue | Evanston, IL

Length of Training:  12 group sessions  |  4 individual consultation or family sessions for each client

Cost:  $975

Training led by:

Keith Whipple, RDT ~ Institute for Therapy through the Arts
Isabelle Reiniger, LCSW ~ Center for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis   

For more information or to register, please contact:
Christine Hazelett
847.425.9708, ext. 173

About the Program

Presented in partnership with The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, this program for teens 12 to 15, combines principles from play, drama therapy, mindfulness, psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral group therapy to help kids achieve greater social success.

Through a group story-creation process that involves imaginative, in-the-moment interaction and improvisational problem-solving, teens receive assistance and guidance to help them move from anxiety and rigidity to acceptance and flexibility as they meet the challenge of forming meaningful social relationships in a complicated world.

About the Trainers

Keith Whipple, MA, RDT

Keith graduated from DePaul University’s Theater School with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting. He earned a Master’s in Therapeutic and Educational Drama from Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Keith performed and conducted drama workshops in correctional institutions throughout North America, England, Scotland and Ireland with Geese Theater Company, and has used theater techniques to work with Chicago’s immigrant population. He completed his training at the Psychodrama Training Institute of Chicago and interned at Columbia Lakeshore Hospital. Keith Whipple co-authored and published a paper with speech therapists at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago entitled, “Waiting on the Words”:  Procedures and Outcomes of a Drama Class for Individuals with Aphasia. He is a veteran stage actor who has performed and taught improvisation at Chicago’s ComedySportz Theatre for nearly two decades.

Isabelle Reiniger, LCSW

Isabelle Reiniger is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Master’s Degree in Social Work from New York University and postgraduate training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy from the William Alanson White Institute in New York.  She has 15 years of clinical experience with children, adolescents and adults. She has a special interest in groups and has worked with groups of children and adolescents for the Englewood project a program of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.Besides her private practice, she is the clinical director of the Chicago North chapter of A Home Within, an organization that serves children in the foster care system.