Elena Vassallo Crossman, MDiv, LCPC

Elena has been a psychotherapist for 30 years.  She enjoys all aspects of her practice and has had an opportunity to help people with a great many things; central to her interest has always been the question of what provides lasting joy and fulfillment for human beings.  Raised from an early age in the model of transformative retreats and always full of spiritual questions her original training took place not only in the field of psychology but in divinity school and a brief stint in priestess school in the woods of Wisconsin.

Midlife and it's own set of crises including the death of her brother set Elena firmly on a course of dramatic healing and growth.  This period grounded her even more firmly on the path of her own spirituality in a way that deeply informed her clinical work and led to the development of Circle.  Her therapeutic approach most centrally involves helping clients understand the way their family-of-origin based patterns of thought and behavior restrict and affect their adult experience.  She collaborates with other healers to facilitate the greatest change for her clients.  

Elena is a highly sought after psychotherapist, and consultant to other therapists, who with her spouse owns Integrative Psychotherapy Associates of Oak Park and Chicago.  She is now most dedicated to bringing the collective years of her training, work, and experience to facilitating the rapid growth and empowerment of women.