Areas of Expertise: Client-Centered Therapy, Group Therapy, Family Therapy, Diversity, Severe Psychology
Margaret Warner, Ph.D. Professor
Margaret S. Warner, Ph.D. is a distinguished professor at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology at NLU, having taught classes relating to client-centered therapy, group therapy, family therapy, diversity and severe psychology since 1983. Her doctorate is in behavioral sciences from the committee on human development of the University of Chicago. She is a client-centered therapist who has practiced for over 35 years, with a particular emphasis on work with clients experiencing “difficult process,” those typically diagnosed as borderline, narcissistic, dissociative identity disorders or schizophrenia. Her clinical training was undertaken at the Chicago Counseling and Psychotherapy Center, an offshoot of the original Counseling Center founded by Carl Rogers at the University of Chicago. She was a co-founder of the Minor in Client-Centered and Experiential Psychology at the Chicago campus of the Illinois School of Professional Psychology. Dr. Warner also has a particular interest in a person-centered approach to diversity issues. She co-founded a group called “Face to Face with Diversity” that conducted a day-long, person-centered diversity group at the Chicago 2000 conference. Following this, the Face to Face with Diversity group designed a group class called “Exploring Diversity” in which students explore diversity issues in an open person-centered group which as a “critical mass” of students of color. She co-founded Nia Services, a diversity-oriented, person- centered training site on the South Side of Chicago. Dr. Warner has published widely and has offered many presentations to international groups on “difficult process,” diversity, and the person-centered theory of meaning. Dr. Warner, with a group of volunteers, convened Chicago 2000: The Fifth International Conference in Client-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, the first time that this conference had been held in the United States. She was a founding member of the World Association for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling.
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