Associate Counselors
Associate Counselors allow Family Psychology to refer to quality counselors in related areas of service who agree to measure the outcome of their work at each meeting with each client. There is an intangible “goodness of fit” factor unique to each client-counselor pairing, and having Associate Counselors offers clients a choice of personality, gender, and working style when shopping for an effective counselor. Associate counselors are independent practitioners who operate as separate sole proprietors. They rent space in the same office building for professional support given similar professional missions and related specialties.
Sharon Bain, LCSW specializes in female depression, post-partum depression, and helping parents of infants and preschoolers. She earned her Masters in Social Work from the University of Chicago in 1993. After several years providing intensive outpatient treatment for women with depression, she re-specialized in the area of children and families while working at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. She is now the Parent Resource Specialist and Consultant at Early Childhood Development Center of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s and limits her private practice to just a few clients at any given time. Sharon is a married mother of three young children, sings with the South Bend Chamber Singers, and plays the French horn.
Sarah Shannon, M.A. specializes in marital enrichment, family therapy, and women’s mental health issues. Sarah earned her Masters of Arts in Counseling, with a concentration in Marriage and Family Therapy at Bethel College. She provides counseling to couples, families, and adults in her full-time private practice, which she recently opened after training and working at Catholic Charities South Bend for a number of years. Sarah is a married mother of two young children.