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Maria Ciupe, MA, LPC, received her Master's degree from Wheaton College and is a Licensed Professional Counselor. Maria has previous
experience working with young people with emotional, attachment,
abuse and abandonment issues, as well as working with adults and
families at a community counseling center. Maria works full-time in ECFA’s
Wheaton and Chicago offices providing individual, couple, and
family therapy. She sees her areas of clinical strength as grief
and loss/bereavement, personal and spiritual growth, anxiety,
depression, family dynamics, communication, abuse, and working
with individuals with physical disabilities and their families.
When asked about counseling, Maria states, "Counseling is about
bringing healing, restoration and hope. It is about growing both
personally and relationally and becoming the unique persons we
were created to be." |
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Gay Lynn Patton, MA, LPC, received her Master's
of Clinical Psychology from Wheaton College, and is credentialed
as a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Board Certified
Professional Christian Counselor. She works part-time at ECFA
Counseling Centers in the Wheaton office doing individual
therapy across all age groups, as well as couples therapy,
family therapy, and parent coaching. Gay's approach is often to
use evidence-based treatments. For example, when appropriate,
she uses an approach for parent coaching which is proven to
change parent-child interaction patterns and improve the quality
of the parent-child relationship. Also, she is certified in
Prepare/Enrich premarital and marital counseling, and is
interested in relationship reconciliation and conflict
regulation within families. She believes it is possible for
everyone to tap into their God-given creative nature to find new
ways of coping with traumatic life experiences, and also to
begin recapturing their true identities. When asked about
counseling, Gay states, "For me, the goal of counseling is to
facilitate processes of renewal and also deep restoration of
hope with souls that are weary and wounded." |
