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Cate Fering, MSW, LCSW

Cate is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 25 years experience working with individuals, couples and groups. Cate specializes in using the Internal Family System(IFS) or “Parts” model. This model provides an integration of intrapsychic family therapy with psychology and spirituality. Cate understands divorce is a time of great loss and pain, but believes it's also an opportunity to reevaluate a person’s life. Her divorce work is teaching what to expect as one goes through a divorce and how to use emotional, physical and spiritual strategies to help survive, heal and thrive.




Steve Wallman, MSW, LCSW

Steve is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who specializes in issues of divorce. He is divorced and remarried, and personally and professionally aware of the importance of sustained support in helping clients resolve the difficult issues of divorce. He obtained his Masters of Arts degree in Clinical Social Work, University of Chicago - School of Social Service Administrations in 1994 after 20 years of sales and marketing experience in corporate America. He received a Post Graduate Certificate from the Chicago Center for Family Health, Methods of Family & Couples Therapy in 1999. He also specializes in men's issues with almost 20 years of experience as participant and staff leader in the Chicago men's movement.




Kate van Dyke, M.A., Divorce Coach

Kate is the founder of Divorce Counseling and Coaching, Inc. She is dedicated to making the divorce process less stressful, more manageable and much more cost effective for divorcing individuals. Her years of private practice counseling adults, leading parenting training programs, and running marital crisis groups coupled with her corporate experience as the senior marketing and communications executive enable her to tackle both the emotional and the business pieces of the divorce process. She works with clients to develop a realistic plan of action and divorce timeline. Kate is certified in Mediation Training and Consultation Family Mediation and Parent Education Leadership. She is a member of the Mediation Council of Illinois and the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals. Kate earned her Master’s degree from the Alfred Adler Institute and her B.A. from Bryn Mawr.




Gail Grossman, Ph.D.

Gail Grossman earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology
from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1986 and
has been working with children and families since that
time. She has special interests in divorce and in
child abuse, and has served as a forensic evaluator
for the court system for many years. She is the
co-founder of the newly formed Illinois Parent Resource Center, which assists parents and children to function at their highest level when navigating through normal stages of development or coping with
stressful life transitions. Dr. Grossman is very involved in providing both educational and supportive services to families and children.

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