Frances Pacheco, Psy.D.

About Frances Pacheco

Dr. Pacheco received her doctoral degree from Forest Institute of Professional Psychology. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology as a major and Fine Arts minor from Barat College. Dr. Pacheco is a consulting Psychologist for Advocate Condell Medical Center. She works with numerous primary care physicians and insurance companies.

She has extensive experience in private practice, hospitals, and schools, providing psychotherapy for children, adults, families, and couples. Dr. Pacheco provides individual, couples and family therapy, working with communication issues, parenting, stress management, anxiety, and depression.

Dr. Pacheco is a provider of forensic services to the Lake County Illinois Court, conducting court-ordered custody evaluations, divorce mediation and facilitates a therapeutic reunification program for children and their parent. Dr. Pacheco’s specialty clinical caseload has consisted of issues surrounding marital conflict, assisting and consulting with couples contemplating separation and divorce and working with children of divorce, as well as providing divorce mediation. She has also provided therapy for the courts pertaining to other issues when ordered.

She has also been an adjunct professor for The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Barat College and Columbia of Missouri College. She has worked extensively with local graduate schools training doctoral and masters level therapists.

Dr. Pacheco uses a Family Systems and Cognitive Behavioral approach to therapy to better facilitate her patient’s understanding of themselves, their families and their environment, in order to make personal positive changes in behavior, thoughts, and feelings. She is adept at changing her approaches to therapy as the needs of the patient may warrant, presenting a more eclectic, open view to the therapy process.