Monica Samelson
Psychiatrist, MD
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I am a psychiatrist practicing in-depth psychotherapy, including psychoanalysis, with or without medications. I often see artists and creatives, social change makers, and healthcare workers, and I have particular expertise in queer issues, peripartum stages, and the aftermath of trauma.
I am especially interested in helping with the aftermath of trauma on an individual, interpersonal, and greater sociocultural level, including experiences of racialized trauma, gender-based violence, abusive dynamics, ableism, and queer- and transphobia.
Psychotherapy works by building together a safe enough relational environment that you can experience your memories, relationships, and sociocultural context anew. Therapy can build insight into current ways of being, or make new ones possible, so you can move towards a greater agency in the ways you interface with a complex and imperfect world.
Traditionally psychoanalysis is understood as a long-term and intensive psychotherapy experience focused on the unconscious, usually involving meeting multiple times per week, sometimes including lying down on the couch. My interest lies in a psychoanalytic practice which values and uplifts cultural and psychologic underworlds through decolonial praxis.
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Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today License: Illinois / 036.163441 Monica Samelson
- University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, MD, Graduated 2016
- License: Medical Board of California 183790 / 2023
- Board Certification by American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Education and Years In Practice
Additional Credentials
Monica Samelson
Psychiatrist, MD
Feel free to ask about qualifications and training experience. Email or (773) 207-2986
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Trauma and PTSD
- Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
- LGBTQ+
Expertise
- Addiction
- Alcohol Use
- Anxiety
- Bipolar Disorder
- Bisexual
- Burnout
- Chronic Illness
- Depression
- Domestic Violence
- Eating Disorders
- Family Conflict
- Gay
- Grief
- Lesbian
- Medication Management
- Mood Disorders
- Neurodivergence
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Relationship Issues
- Stress
- Transgender
- Women's Issues
Endorsement
Client Focus
Age
Adults ,
Elders (65+)
Participants
Individuals
Communities
Bisexual Allied ,
Gay Allied ,
HIV / AIDS Allied ,
Intersex Allied ,
Lesbian Allied ,
Non-Binary Allied ,
Queer Allied ,
Racial Justice Allied ,
Sex Worker Allied ,
Transgender Allied
Age
Adults ,
Elders (65+)
Participants
Individuals
Communities
Bisexual Allied ,
Gay Allied ,
HIV / AIDS Allied ,
Intersex Allied ,
Lesbian Allied ,
Non-Binary Allied ,
Queer Allied ,
Racial Justice Allied ,
Sex Worker Allied ,
Transgender Allied
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Culturally Sensitive
- Psychoanalytic
- Psychodynamic
- Trauma Focused
Monica Samelson
Psychiatrist, MD
Ask about what different forms of therapy will be like. Email or (773) 207-2986