Isabel is a counselor and dance/movement therapist at Alivo Medical Center, specializing in somatic psychotherapy for victims of trauma, anxiety and domestic violence. Isabel is also part of the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative (NRI), whose goal it is to reduce risk factors and promote protective factors associated with violence through providing trauma counseling and anger management training to Latino youth in the Pilsen and Little Village neighborhoods of Chicago.​

The Director, Carmen Edith Freeze, has worked with various projects with the Mental Health Services and Policy Program of Northwestern University. She managed three projects (Integrated Assessment, Child and Youth Investment Team, and Intact Families) for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (IDCFS). Carmen is also a Northwestern University-certified trainer in the measuring system Children and Adolescents Strengths and Needs (CANS), which is used to train and create reports that help with the policies and practices of ICDFS. Carmen is passionate about childhood mental health and is very interested in helping children from Latin-American countries, such as her native Ecuador.

Tracy Fehrenbach, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago where she serves as the Co-Director of the Center for Child Trauma Assessment and Service Planning.

For the past 15 years, Dr. Fehrenbach has specialized in research, evaluation and clinical work with traumatized populations, including adolescents in the juvenile justice system and children and adults impacted by interpersonal traumas such as domestic violence, physical and sexual abuse. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and has presented nationally and internationally on these topics. She has taught a courses on interpersonal trauma across the lifespan for graduate students and medical students at Northwestern University for which she named teacher of the year.

Dr. Fehrenbach has over 10 years of experience in the evaluation of intervention packages meant to decrease interpersonal violence and trauma symptoms and has recently been the primary investigator on four separate projects, including the evaluation of two diversion programs for justice-involved youth, one in Illinois and one in Mexico, as well as two projects examining the impact of empirically-based treatments for trauma in youth. Dr. Fehrenbach is an active member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, the American Psychological Association and the American Professional Society for the Abuse of Children. Dr. Fehrenbach is fluent in Spanish and has a particular interest making violence prevention and trauma interventions more culturally sensitive and more readily accessible to traditionally underserved populations.