About | Isabelle Reiniger LCSW

Training and Credentials

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Master’s Degree in Social Work from New York University and psychoanalytic postgraduate training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy from the William Alanson White Institute in New York.

In 2016 I completed the Conference Consultation Training and Certification of the A.K. Rice Institute which prepared me to be a consultant at group relations conferences. This is a method that studies the dynamics of groups and organizations in an experiential way. In 2024 I was named a fellow of the A.K.Rice Institute.

I have completed the Level I training in Internal Family Systems (IFS) work and am pursuing further training and certification.

At this point I have more than 25 years of clinical experience, working with individuals, couples and groups. I also provide clinical and organizational consultation.

Besides private practice, I have been an adjunct professor at Loyola University Chicago in the graduate program of the School of Social Work. Until 2017, I was also a consultant for the Chicago North chapter of A Home Within, an organization that serves children in the foster care system. Early on I was invited to be a contributing author for the book “Building a Home Within” edited by Toni Vaughn Heineman and Diane Ehrensaft.

From 2013 through 2015 I ran groups in a school on the South Side of Chicago for the Child and Adolescent Clinic of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. In addition to running the groups I supervised social work students from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.