At Integrative Health Partners, we are committed to providing the highest quality psychotherapy, professional training, and public education. We can help with relationships and with problems of depression, stress, anxiety, addictive behaviors, and eating disorders.

The links above will tell you more about our clinicians and our services. We´d especially like to draw your attention to:

We hope you will read and comment on our psychology and mindfulness blog. We're posting our reflections about mindfulness, links to great resources, and research reports on mindfulness and health. More information...

Mindfulness has been shown to be an effective approach for managing stress and anxiety. Read more about our next class, starting soon.

Dr. Thomson and Dr. Connors have developed a six week program that addresses problems of overeating, compulsive dieting, and emotional eating. This research-based approach integrates mindfulness, meditation, and psychology to help you find greater balance and enjoyment in eating. More information...

Our next course will be offered in early Spring, 2010. Call Dr. Connors at 312-372-5501 to register, or use our Contact form.

Offered by Roger Thomson, Ph.D. and Mary Connors, Ph.D.

Many of the individuals and couples we see in our practice are dealing with life problems that transcend medically-based diagnostic categories. These issues are not symptoms of larger problems like clinical depression, but the natural expression of our complicated human lives. Our Personal and Executive Coaching Program draws on our many years of experience as educators and psychologists, integrating the principles that we believe are central to positive change. More information...

Dr. Connors´s new book describes our integrative style of psychotherapy. It was released by Analytic Press in April, 2006. Prominent therapists have commented on this interactive, flexible, and comprehensive approach to mental health problems:

"This is a book filled with uncommon clinical wisdom. The interventions suggested by Connors are consistently informed by deep understanding of their meanings for the patient, and her attention to character, transference, and countertransference are masterful. At the same time, she demonstrates clearly how the deeper aims of psychoanalytic work can be enhanced rather than compromised by thoughtful inclusion of methods whose origins lie outside the psychoanalytic tradition. Connors is theoretically sophisticated, but it is the patient and his or her suffering, rather than theoretical 'purity,' that is the central focus of her work."

Paul Wachtel, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Psychology
City College and CUNY Graduate Center

"Connors' writing reflects both rigorous scholarship and great personal warmth. The comprehensiveness of her treatment of her material and the clarity of her prose will be appreciated by teacher, student, and clinician alike. It is also a particular gift of this volume that the working clinician is offered a pathway through which neither depth-psychological understanding not symptom-focused relief has to be sacrificed in providing sound clinical care."

Jill R. Gardner, Ph.D.
University of Chicago