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About Wakeful
Our Mission in the World
Wakeful’s goal and purpose is to be a trusted group practice that is known for its development of helping professionals who provide precise and comprehensive psychological assessments, treatment, and societal contributions. We strive to create client relationships and institutional partnerships that are deeply accepting, collaborative, serious about improvement, playful, and down to earth. Each staff member has made a conscious commitment to ceaselessly engage in clinical training, mentorship, and personal and professional reflection so as to embody the highest levels of skill and integrity. Our work is our purpose, calling and passion.
Our Commitment to One Another
We are a group of mental health practitioners that aspire to achieve the highest levels of psychological health, knowledge and clinical skills. We take our professional and personal development very seriously, individually and collectively, and support one another in this honest, tenacious and life-long endeavor. This is why we have also come together with the intention of forming and maintaining Wakeful’s Work-Family. One that is down-to-earth, genuine, non-judgmental, playful and honorable. Our differences and common bonds are the basis for our relationships, we turn toward what is uncomfortable, and we don’t take ourselves too seriously.
Our Founding
Dr. Lodrö and Dr. Meyer first met in graduate school at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in 2007. Then in 2014, they began working together at a Therapeutic Day School for middle school and high school students. As they became good colleagues and friends, Dr. Lodrö proposed the idea of starting a group practice together and it was in 2017 that they began making this a reality. Throughout their careers, they both observed ways that mental health practices and professionals could be better for their clients and the public. With a combined love for the field of psychology and shared personal and professional values, they officially embarked in creating Wakeful in 2019. What is most important to them is to establish and grow Wakeful in deliberate, strategic and thoughtful ways. This ensures the quality of the group and its ability to help.
Our Goal
Wakeful is a boutique group mental health practice, and one that strives to maintain the intimate feeling of family. Wakeful doesn’t just serve individual clients, but those they love and are connected to. We are ever mindful of our communities and the people in the Chicagoland area, the state of Illinois and beyond. Our ultimate goal is to be a place that people can count on. We strive toward excellence in all that we do but recognize that all of us are imperfect. This is why we’re always learning and improving. We believe in bringing different specialties together to truly understand and be able to support the entire person along with the family and social systems they’re connected to. We believe that education is vital to humans reaching their potential; this is why we partner with institutions so that early career professionals can have a place to grow, learn and help others.
Accepted Insurance
We take BCBS PPO plans, Aetna, Optum/United, Cigna and of course, private pay. We’re in process of getting credentialed with TriWest/TriCare and will update our list when it’s completed.
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