Staff Therapist, The Family Institute at Northwestern University
This webinar is a contribution to a larger growing conversation about the multiplex experience of high achieving female professionals. Growing rates of depression and anxiety are present among this community of women, exposing greater need for treatment designed to address, burn out, motherhood, marriage, single life, navigating the professional environment and relationships and much more. Current research on the multicultural female professional experience will be presented along with the development of mental health constraints and treatment guidance.
Bio Heather C. Lofton, PhD: Dr. Lofton is an integrative therapist, well-versed in addressing mental health concerns among individual adults and couples from diverse racial ethnic backgrounds, socioeconomic statuses, religious beliefs and sexual orientations. Her specialty areas of treatment are women's health issues and professional women with depression, anxiety and work life balance concerns. Dr. Lofton's primary area of research and treatment more specifically focuses on high-achieving minority female professionals who are presented with mental health constraints. Her more common areas of treatment for couples specifically include communication issues, conflict, trust building, premarital work, infidelity and divorce. Dr. Lofton is dedicated to providing cultural competent and systemic care.