~ Welcome! ~

My name is Marjorie Colindres. I worked in school settings as a school social worker starting in 2012 with K-12 grade students in the Chicagoland area. Additionally, I work in a private practice setting with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and seniors at Fox Valley Institute as a bilingual licensed clinical social worker. I have also worked as an adjunct instructor at Loyola University Chicago (LUC), teaching School Social Work Practice and Policy and mentoring courses. In 2019 and 2020, I assisted in coordinating the IASSW conference for professionals in the field of school social work.

My Bachelor’s degrees are in Spanish Literature and Psychology from Loyola University Chicago, a Master’s degree in Social Work with a School Social Work Type 73 Professional Educator License from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a Type 75 Professional Educator License with a General School Administrator Endorsement from Lewis University. Lastly, I am a Ph.D. student at Loyola University Chicago in the social work program; my expected date to graduate is May 2025.

Specialties

My therapeutic style depends on the need of students as I use an eclectic approach:

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
  • Task-Centered Practice
  • Play Therapy
  • Humanistic Therapy
  • Behavioral Therapy
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Gottman Institute Marriage Counseling- Level 1
  • Christian Counseling
  • Feminist Therapy

Publications:

Kelly, M., & Colindres, M. (2013, June 11). Task-centered practice. In Encyclopedia of Social Work. Last modified 2020, September 28. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.013.388