JAYCE CASTELLOW, PH.D.

My training, specialization, and passion are devoted to the transformative work of promoting healing from trauma. Currently a licensed clinical psychologist in Illinois, I earned my Ph.D. in Clinical-Community Psychology from the University of South Carolina where my research and community work focused on promoting social equity, often from an intersectional feminist lens. I participated in an APA-accredited internship in general psychology and a specialized post-doctoral fellowship in PTSD, Substance Use Disorder, and Pain at Jesse Brown VA Medical Center in Chicago. It was there that my dedication to trauma work truly began.

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The majority of my career prior to private practice was spent serving veterans in a role in which I specialized in PTSD, trauma, and co-occurring Substance Use Disorder. I also briefly served as the Trauma Program Director in a program in Chicago at the partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient (PHP/IOP) levels of care. With formal training in specific, evidence-based interventions as well as experience with more dynamic, person-centered approaches, I understand that effective and impactful therapy is personalized and can take place in a variety of ways. The most important piece is that you, the patient and client, feel in control and are an active agent in your healing process.