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Amy Zajakowski Uhll

CCIH Director

Name: Amy Zajakowski Uhll
Title: CCIH Director
Phone: 773.754.7441
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Amy Zajakowski Uhll founded the Chicago Center for Integration and Healing and serves as the director.  Drawing on over 25 years of experience, she provides psychotherapy to individuals, couples, and families. Her speciality is trauma-Informed treatment, with a focus on Complex Trauma and Dissociation. Throughout her career, Amy has been interested in exploring the integration of  traditional relational approaches with body-centered and mindfulness-based techniques.

Amy provides clinical consultation to other therapists and to organizations in support of trauma-informed care.  She specializes in helping therapists integrate trauma-informed practices into the work that they are already doing.  Amy believes that for therapists it is more important how we are with our clients than what we do. She supports therapists in exploring their own internal experience as they develop their authentic approach to healing.

Amy is originally trained in psychodynamic treatment and  graduated with her Master’s in Counseling Psychology from Northwestern University in 1991. She has completed advanced training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, a somatic psychotherapy that is deeply informed by neurobiological research.

She co-authored the article “Beginning with the Social Worker: Yoga Nidra Meditation as a Means for Self-Inquiry, Growth, Effectiveness, and Resiliency.”

For the past 18 years, she’s served as a volunteer therapist at Chicago’s Marjorie Kovler Center where she treats survivors of government-sponsored torture.

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Recent Posts by Amy Zajakowski Uhll

  • Essential Trauma Concepts
  • Anti-Oppression

CCIH Statement on Racial Trauma

We at CCIH find ourselves compelled to reflect on what it means to be a trauma-informed therapist during the current times...

Amy Zajakowski Uhll
Amy Zajakowski Uhll
January 4, 2021
  • Study Group
  • Trauma-Informed Care
  • Trauma In The Media

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

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
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
Amy Zajakowski Uhll
May 28, 2018

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