Timothy S. Gobek, MSW, LCSW has been practicing psychotherapy with individuals, families, and groups in Northwest Indiana since 1989.
Tim earned his Masters degree at Loyola University of Chicago and his Bachelor in Psychology from Purdue University Calumet.
Tim
has more than 30 years of experience helping children, adolescents, and adults. Tim started his career as a psychotherapist on an
adult inpatient psychiatric treatment unit. At the same time he would work with the other two units in the hospital, children &
adolescents, and substance abuse. It was at this point that Tim moved to specialize in working with children and adolescents.
Timothy S. Gobek, MSW, LCSW
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He became the Clinical Director at a therapeutic day school in Des Plaines, IL. From this point on most of Tim's career was spent
working with children, adolescents and their families. He served in a variety of capacities while not only gaining valuable experience
with children and adolescents but he also began working with male survivors of sexual abuse.
It was at this point that Tim began
to hold positions in the child welfare system, juvenile justice, residential treatment for children and adolescents and school social
work. He became an adjunct faculty member at Calumet College of St. Joseph in Whiting, IL. He teaches at both the bachelor and masters
level in the Psychology Program.
Tim is psychodynamically trained therefore relationships are important and essential to resolving
issues that manifest themselves in depression, anxiety, and much acting-out behavior in children, adolescents, and adults.
Tim looks very closely at self-esteem. Tim believes that every behavior is a manifestation of unresolved issues. "Everything we do
we get something out of it, not always positive."