LMFT
Jori Sparry is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist with over 11 years of experience. She graduated from Central Connecticut State University with a major in Psychology and a minor in Religious Studies. She completed a Master of Science degree with a specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy in 2000.
She was trained by William Boylin, Ph.D., who was supervised and trained by Carl Whitaker M.D. (a founding father of family therapy) in family systems and the creator of Symbolic Experiential Therapy.
She has worked in a number of various settings including inpatient drug and alcohol rehabilitation, foster care/adoption, and a crisis stabilization home for teenagers.
Jori opened her own solo private practice in Connecticut in 2004. She has been a consultant for numerous therapists advising them on the structure of starting their own businesses.
Recently she developed and started a federally funded grant program working with abused children. She teamed up with the National Advocacy Center in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2006, she participated in a pilot program to further her knowledge and skill in working with childhood trauma and how it relates in the context of family.
Jori relocated with her family to Illinois in 2008. She worked for the Mental Health Network Government Services. In February 2010, Jori worked with service members returning from an eighteen month deployment in Afghanistan at Fort Hood, Kileen Texas. Upon her return from Texas, she took an assignment to work at the Illinois National Guard, Camp Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois. She participated in three summer camps for children of military service members, and also in pre deployment and reunification programming for service members and their families. Her experience includes working with all branches of active service, National Guard, reserve members and their families. Jori continues her work with military families on weekend assignments as needed.
Her expertise includes working with traumatic life events, post traumatic stress disorder, marital and family issues, blended family issues, divorce, infertility, families with multiples, depression, anxiety, and with military service members and their families.
Jori is a clinical member of American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy and a member of the Illinois Association of Marriage and Family Therapy.
Her style of therapy is direct and nurturing. She believes in any crisis there is opportunity for growth.