Rachel Nitzarim

Dr. Nitzarim the Director of Clinical Training at The Office of Placement and Training in the Clinical PsyD-Chicago department. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Department of Counseling Psychology at UW-Madison in 2015. Throughout her training and early career, she has cultivated an interest in psychologist training, competency development and clinical supervision. Additionally, her research on social class and psychotherapy process and outcome has resulted in numerous publications in various career, qualitative and Counseling Psychology journals as well as a number of presentations at professional conferences.

Finally, after training in a number of community mental health and counseling centers, and obtaining licensure as a Clinical Psychologist in the state of Illinois, she has found a passion for long term, psychodynamically-oriented and interpersonally-based clinical work. In addition to her position at The Chicago School, she is currently providing psychotherapy services to adolescents, adults and couples at her private practice, Rosewatter Chicagoland Counseling, PLLC. To date, Dr. Nitzarim has co-taught Supervision, Consultation and Professional Issues and History and Systems, DBT Lite and Intermediate Practicum Seminar.

Areas of interest include issues related to social class, unemployment, low-income populations, psychotherapy process and outcome, psychology training, clinical supervision and psychologist competency.