Experience More in Your Life's Journey

You are a whole person, multilayered,evolving, curious and searching for meaning. You are, in outer words, so much more than a diagnosis.

WELCOME TO STUDIO FOR CHANGE®

The Studio for Change® is a counseling practice where adults, teens, children, couples, and families who are experiencing emotional, behavioral, or social challenges can figure out their next best steps in life. We are a group of licensed psychotherapists who provide supportive and effective counseling and educational services to address a variety of issues and concerns and help children, teenagers, and adults improve their coping skills, better manage their emotions, and get motivated and prepared to bring about significant, self-selected life changes.

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight as a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom”

Anais Nin

Studio for Change® Therapy Services

Individual Therapy

Embracing change by empowering you

Couples Therapy

A connection through your shared individual journey

Child Therapy

Building skills and behaviors to serve your child well

Teen Therapy

A space to embrace hopeful, courageous change

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Kathy believes therapy presents a unique opportunity and experience to feel deeply seen and heard, to process and make sense of innermost emotions and experiences, to recognize and unlock one’s inherent strengths, and to move toward a deeper sense of self awareness and compassion.

She views people as being capable of an enormous range of emotions, thoughts, and experiences, though often they can find themselves feeling stuck. Kathy further recognizes that people are inherently wired for healing given the right conditions. To that end, through her warmth, genuine curiosity, empathy, and grounded presence, she endeavors to create a safe, explorative, validating, and collaborative therapeutic space, one that always honors the unique worldview of the client.

Kathy is passionate about self-discovery and collaborates with clients to build needed skills and inner resources to work through factors that block one’s sense of freedom and motion, to allow oneself to be radically authentic, to pursue what is truly meaningful, and ultimately, to fully engage in life’s journey. She guides clients to examine past and present issues to achieve insights and new patterns that will help clients overcome adversity and promote change toward their unique goals.

Kathy identifies as a strength-based clinician, utilizing a variety of evidence-based practices, including mindfulness, solution-focused therapy, motivational interviewing, feminist therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and trauma/attachment informed therapy.

Kathy holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Northeastern Illinois University and a Master’s degree in Counseling from Concordia University Chicago. She recently received licensure as a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP). Her experience in private practice has allowed her to work with a diverse range of populations, supporting adults, adolescents, and families experiencing challenges such as depression, anxiety, trauma, addiction, life transitions, identity development, relationship/communication issues, grief, and more.

In her spare time Kathy enjoys hiking and connecting with nature, playing in a tennis league, reading the latest contemporary fiction, and spending quality time with family, friends, and pets.

Over more than twenty years, Dr. Julia Rahn has built a varied career in clinical practice, over the span of which a unifying theme has clearly emerged: to achieve the best outcomes, you must work with the whole person. This is the key to Dr. Rahn’s success in helping individuals and families to define personal goals and to make progress towards those goals. Harnessing the depth and diversity of her clinical experience, Dr. Rahn helps her clients to leverage their strengths to alleviate depression, manage anxiety or other difficult emotions, and to improve relationships with others—as well as with themselves.

Dr. Rahn’s own professional journey has taken her throughout the Midwest, with numerous clinical externships culminating in an internship at the University of Wisconsin, and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Dr. Rahn has developed her practice as program director for a pediatric development center, professor of psychology at two universities in Illinois as well as an entrepreneur. As Director of Studio for Change®, Dr. Rahn has sought to create a space within which her clients have access to a rich variety of therapeutic efforts and resources; adding to the Studio’s primary focus on psychotherapy, Dr. Rahn’s practice makes frequent referrals to professionals in nutrition, fitness and hypnosis, and makes frequent recommendations for external resources such as books, art, and social or networking events.

Dr. Rahn is available for speakerships, and has experience in public speaking, television and radio appearances, as well as in publishing for both professional and lay audiences.

When Dr. Rahn isn’t wondering how the world could be a better place to live in and what her role in this change should be, she enjoys participating in spin classes, taking walks by the lake, and visiting her heartland in Northern Michigan.

Please note: Julia is not taking new clients at this time

Jodi embraces a practical approach to therapy, encompassing a variety of therapeutic modalities, to address numerous emotional issues, including anxiety, depression, adjustment issues, adolescent issues, family dysfunction, LGBTQ issues, OCD, personality disorders, mental health disorders, and trauma. She has worked with individuals, couples, families, groups, and communities.

Jodi knows that we all view life through our own lens, and equally that all our lenses are cracked. Each experience adds a new “crack,” skewing our view (for better or worse) of ourselves, others, and the world around us. Exploring our own, unique context allows space for understanding, acceptance, forgiveness, empathy, healing, growth—and change!

Jodi’s practice begins where the client is at, and remains centered on the client and their strengths. She establishes safety and trust to allow for a collaborative and authentic therapeutic relationship, dynamically re-evaluating as therapy progresses to ensure that the client’s primary concerns and needs are met. Jodi firmly believes that successful therapy not only relieves symptoms but fosters inner capacity and resources to allow clients to live with greater freedom, contentment and possibility.

Jodi helps her patients to understand and accept themselves as the foundation for emotional insight, mood regulation and improved interpersonal patterns and attachment styles. She empowers clients with greater skills for communication and self-expression. Such self-acceptance, emotional insight and skillful communication combine to foster greater empathy for others.

Jodi is available for therapy with individuals (teenagers and adults), couples and families.

Jodi and her husband enjoy sharing their lives with their two mini-dachshunds (their “furry children”). The beach is Jodi’s happy place and she loves traveling as much as possible to broaden her concept of people, herself, and the world we live in.

Experience More in Your Life's Journey

WELCOME TO STUDIO FOR CHANGE®

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight as a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom”

Studio for Change® Therapy Services

Individual Therapy

Couples Therapy

Child Therapy

Teen Therapy

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Judy Ranniger-Meza, LCSW

In a varied career spanning over twenty years, Judy has worked in foster care, residential therapy, adoption preservation, community mental health and in both group and solo private practice. Her roles in these settings have been clinical, supervisory and administrative.

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Emily Brown, Psy.D.

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Emily Brown, Psy.D.

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