Amy Steinhauer

Amy Steinhauer, AM, LCSW, ACSW, is a senior therapist and the associate director of Womencare. For more than eighteen years she has provided individual, relationship, and group therapy, lead workshops, and trained and supervised professionals. Amy is a feminist-relational therapist whose clinical expertise includes abuse-related trauma as well as sexual relationships and problems.

As a sex therapist, Amy holds an appreciation for the breadth of human sexual experience and embraces a sex-positive, non-shaming perspective. Her approach to addressing sexual issues is both direct and empathic. As a trauma therapist, Amy sits comfortably with complexity, listens carefully for the narrative of trauma that informs the present, and holds relationships as central to healing. She holds a particular capacity to understand the complexity of sexuality in the wake of sexual abuse and companion clients through sexual healing. She is an active therapist who uses a stance of respect and curiosity to cultivate a safe environment for sensitive therapeutic work.

In addition to sexuality and trauma, her clinical interests include women's health issues and infertility. What most moves her as a psychotherapist is accompanying clients as they claim their voices and move into authenticity.

Amy values diversity and is LGBTQ-affirmative and kink-friendly. She celebrates those who color outside the lines.

Amy can be reached at 847-475-7003, extension 24
or email asteinhauer@womencarecounseling.com.

Workshops and Trainings This Year

• Sexuality Interrupted: Healing the Wounds of Abuse, November 14, 2010
• Sexuality Interrupted for Couples: Sexual Healing After Abuse, December 12, 2010
  
• Summer Institute on the Relational Treatment of Trauma
  

Current Group

• Survivors of Sexual Abuse, an ongoing psychotherapy group, Tuesdays 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Amy is available to train, present, or consult on:

• Sexual Trauma, Sexual Healing: Engaging the Sexual Dilemmas of Abuse Survivors
• Sexual Healing: Preparing Client and Therapist for Work on Sexual Healing after Abuse
• A Feminist-Relational Approach to Work with Trauma Survivors
• Creating Comfort in Addressing Sexual Issues in Psychotherapy
• Revising the Birds and the Bees: Creating Competency in Addressing Sexual Issues with Clients
• Elements of Survivor-Friendly Medical Care
• Other topics related to relationships, sexuality and trauma

Education and Credentials

• AM (Masters Degree in Social Work), 1992, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
• LCSW (Illinois Licensed Clinical Social Worker)
• ACSW (Academy of Certified Social Workers)

Professional Affiliations

• National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
• American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT)
• The International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health (ISSWSH)