Carilyn Guedes

Dr. Carilyn Guedes is an Associate Professor - Adjunct Faculty at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology Department of Clinical Psychology, Doctoral Program. She earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology-Argosy University Chicago. Her area of specialization is Existential/Humanistic Psychology. She is also a certified addictions specialist. Dr. Guedes initially taught at the Chicago School from 2006 - 2007 as Affiliate Faculty in the Master's in Clinical Counseling Program. Returning to the Chicago School in 2020, she currently teaches in the Department of Clinical Psychology, Chicago, and has taught remotely for the LA campus. Her teaching philosophy encompasses a humanistic, strengths-based, collaborative, and student-centered approach. Her mission is to empower students from a platform of self-awareness and social justice. She has served as a University Adjunct Advisory Board Member for The Chicago School since 2022.

Dr. Guedes is also a multilingual Mental Health Consultant to the Head Start Program, including City Colleges of Chicago and Northwestern University Settlement. She consults with teachers and parents to identify obstacles to children's' learning and provides strategies and interventions to help students achieve academic and social-emotional success at school. From 2019 - 2021, while working with a major child development program in Chicago, she developed and directed the "ACEs Stress-Management Program," focusing on empowering families and children facing adverse life conditions, to increase resilience and stress-reduction skills through education, resources, support, and linkage with community services. The program successfully strengthened children's positive and adaptive behavior, self-awareness, self-regulation, and social-emotional skills. In addition, Dr. Guedes provides organizational consultation and coaching on social-emotional and interpersonal competencies, partnership and collaboration, leadership development, organizational culture, and conflict-resolution to schools, institutions of higher learning, and nonprofit organizations in Chicago. She is a member of the APA, Division 32 - Society for Humanistic Psychology, and Division 48 - Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence: Peace Psychology Division