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Amy Zajakowski Uhll, LCPC

CCIH Director

Name: Amy Zajakowski Uhll, LCPC
Title: CCIH Director
Phone: 773.754.7441 X 2011
Pronouns: she/her/hers
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Amy Zajakowski Uhll is the founder and director of the Chicago Center for Integration and Healing.  For more than 30 years, Amy has been committed to exploring the harm caused by traumatic experiences. She helps individuals discover their own unique journey toward healing and supports other therapists in their work with trauma.

Amy spent the early years of her career working in community mental health. Her experience there deepened her awareness that there is no single approach that can treat all of human suffering, and she began her career-long interest in integrating body-centered and neurobiological approaches with more relational and developmental work. She specializes in complex and developmental trauma and dissociative disorders.

In 2011, Amy founded CCIH as part of her ongoing mission to create a community centered around the treatment of trauma. At CCIH, Amy had a lead role in creating the center’s treatment philosophy, therapist training programs  and Integrated Practices curriculum. In addition, she has created and facilitated many professional development workshops and offered trauma-informed training and consultation to individual therapists,  group practices, social service agencies and other groups. 

Amy understands that trauma reverberates at all levels of human experience: the individual, relational, communal and societal. She supports therapists as they interrogate their own history of wounding, implicit biases and present experience in the development of their own authentic approach to healing work. She holds that the healing of traumatic experiences is an essential agent of social change.

Amy is originally trained in psychodynamic treatment and graduated with her Master’s in Counseling Psychology from Northwestern University in 1991. She also completed the Level 1 Training for the Treatment of Trauma (2006) and Level II Emotional Processing, Meaning Making and Attachment Repair (2018), through the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute of Boulder, CO.


Recent Posts by Amy Zajakowski Uhll

  • Trauma-Informed Care

Seeing Suicidal Ideation through a Trauma-Informed Lens

“I don’t want to be here anymore.”   These words strike fear in the hearts of all therapists.  They remind us of the reality that pain may be so deep and pervasive that someone would think of ending their life...

Amy Zajakowski Uhll
June 8, 2022
  • Trauma In The Media
  • Study Group
  • Trauma-Informed Care

Food, The Body, and Trauma and Attachment

The Body Isn’t the Problem; it’s the answer. - Rachel Lewis-Marlow In our CCIH Study Group in August we decided to change up our usual routine and discuss a podcast...

TU99: Food, The Body, Trauma, & Attachment With Guests Paula Scatoloni & Rachel Lewis-Marlow | Therapist Uncensored

  What if we flipped the script and learned to see our body as a messenger that needs to be heard rather than an obstacle to be conquered when it comes to our relationship with food? When we take physiological perspective, we learn that the body has much to say not only about food but…

Amy Zajakowski Uhll
October 2, 2019
  • Trauma In The Media

The Politics of Mental Health

As therapists we cannot deny that our work, our clients, and ourselves are directly impacted by the context in which we live...

The Politics of Mental Health

Pioneering trauma specialist Bessel van der Kolk took aim not only at the politics within the therapy field that determine what diagnoses get into the DSM, but the politics in the larger arena that lead people to ignore the prevalence of trauma in society.

Amy Zajakowski Uhll
May 28, 2019
  • Trauma-Informed Care

CCIH Welcomes Deb Dana

CCIH is pleased to welcome Deb Dana June 28-29 for Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation: A Polyvagal Theory Guided Approach to Therapy...

Amy Zajakowski Uhll
May 8, 2019
  • Trauma-Informed Care

“Why Don’t You like CBT (Cognitive behavior therapy)?”

An innocent question - asked of me by a client in a recent session.  “Because it is only cognitive and accessing other parts of experience are essential for healing”  was my brief reply...

Amy Zajakowski Uhll
April 26, 2019
  • Professional Development
  • Study Group

CCIH Study Group

In the CCIH Study Group, we have decided to read The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation for our next book together...

Amy Zajakowski Uhll
January 30, 2019
  • Trauma-Informed Care
  • Trauma In The Media

Trauma Outside the Box

These days we hear more and more about services and programs that call themselves "trauma-informed". I often find myself curious about what that actually means...

Trauma Outside the Box

Becoming "trauma-informed" is often just a way to advance one's career and feel good about oneself while pretty much doing nothing different.

Amy Zajakowski Uhll
November 21, 2018
  • Trauma-Informed Care
  • Professional Development

Embodied Practices: A Day of Collaborative Reflection

Thank you!  This was a resourcing, positive experience in a supportive and nurturing format.  I am leaving with more energy and inspiration to make work the best for myself and clients...

Amy Zajakowski Uhll
May 28, 2018

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