About Andersonville Behavioral Health · Chicago
Andersonville Behavioral Health (ABH) is a self-owned mental health clinic in Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood offering psychotherapy, ADHD assessments, and psychological testing for children, teens, adults, couples, and families. The practice operates from an integrative perspective combining psychodynamic, family-systems, and cognitive-behavioral principles. It is owned and clinically directed by Dr. Steven Migalski, a Chicago-born clinical psychologist who also serves on the faculty at Adler University. ABH is distinguished by its specialty in differential diagnosis of ADHD, mood disorders, and personality disorders.
Andersonville Behavioral Health (ABH) is a privately owned, multi-clinician psychotherapy and psychological assessment practice headquartered in Chicago's Andersonville/Edgewater area on the north side. Founded and led by Dr. Steven Migalski, Psy.D., the practice brings together an integrative treatment philosophy that blends psychodynamic, family-systems, and cognitive-behavioral approaches, treating every patient as an individual rather than using one-size-fits-all protocols. ABH's service lines include an ADHD assessment and treatment clinic, comprehensive psychological testing and assessment for children, adolescents, and adults, psychotherapy for adults, psychotherapy for children and teens, and couple and family therapy. What sets ABH apart in the Chicagoland mental health landscape is its specialty in the therapeutic assessment of ADHD, mood disorders, and personality disorders, and its emphasis on differential diagnosis — making sure attention problems, learning difficulties, or emotional distress are correctly understood before treatment begins. The clinic welcomes all families, including LGBTQ+ clients and same-sex couples, and offers day, evening, and weekend appointments to accommodate working professionals, students, and parents. Several of its clinicians also serve on the faculty at Adler University, and ABH contributes to clinical training for the next generation of psychologists and counselors.
- Owner
- Dr. Steven Migalski, Psy.D. — Owner and Clinical Director
- Serves
- Chicago and Chicagoland, primarily Chicago's north-side neighborhoods of Andersonville, Edgewater, and Uptown
About Andersonville Behavioral Health
Andersonville Behavioral Health (ABH) is a self-owned mental health care practice serving Chicago's north side from offices in the Andersonville, Edgewater, and Uptown neighborhoods. The clinic provides specialized psychological services — individual psychotherapy, couples and family therapy, and ADHD assessments for children, teens, and adults — using an integrative approach that combines psychodynamic, family-systems, and cognitive-behavioral principles. ABH's stated mission is to help clients illuminate recurring patterns, improve relationships, reduce emotional pain, and foster lasting personal change. Convenient appointment times are available, including day, evening, and weekend sessions.
- Self-owned mental health clinic
- Headquartered in Chicago, IL (Andersonville / Edgewater)
- Serves children, teens, adults, couples, and families
- Integrative psychodynamic + CBT + family-systems approach
Leadership Team and Clinicians
ABH's leadership team is anchored by Dr. Steven Migalski, the Owner and Clinical Director. Born and raised in Chicago and the grandson of immigrants from Italy and Poland, Dr. Migalski earned his B.S. from Loyola University in 1990, studied clinical psychology at Auburn University in Alabama, and completed his Doctor of Psychology at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology after a residency at Northwestern University's Division of Counseling and Psychological Services in Evanston. He previously served as Director of Psychology at The Josselyn Center and has been on the faculty in the Department of Psychology at Adler University for 22 years, teaching psychological assessment, psychotherapy, qualitative research methods, and LGBTQ+ psychology. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Illinois Psychological Association.
- Dr. Steven Migalski, Psy.D. — Owner and Clinical Director
- Jacob Kowalski, MA, LPC — Staff Psychotherapist and Coordinator of ADHD Services
- Dr. Gregory Bozza — Psychotherapist and Administrative Coordinator; graduate of Adler University's doctoral program in clinical psychology
- Max Feller, MA, LPC — Staff Psychotherapist and Intake Coordinator (Adler University)
ADHD Clinic and Assessment
The ADHD Clinic is a flagship ABH service that evaluates attention, concentration, hyperactivity, and restlessness in children, teens, and adults. ABH clinicians are trained in differential diagnosis, recognizing that attention problems may signal depression, anxiety, another mental health condition, or normative cognitive variation — and that an inaccurate ADHD diagnosis can lead to the wrong treatment and possible misuse of psychostimulant medication. Clients who have already received an ADHD diagnosis from a primary care physician are encouraged to consult a psychologist for a systematic, comprehensive review. Treatment plans are individually tailored and may include cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, time-management strategies, and self-care work, with interpersonal psychotherapy recommended when untreated ADHD has complicated relationships.
- Available to children, teens, and adults
- Differential diagnosis to rule out depression, anxiety, learning disorders
- Tailored treatment plans — CBT, time-management, self-care
- Secondary consultations for those with a prior ADHD diagnosis
- Relational/interpersonal psychotherapy for ADHD-affected relationships
Psychological Testing and Assessment
ABH offers comprehensive psychological testing and individual assessment sessions for a range of clinical and practical questions. Assessments can clarify impressions about complex mental health diagnoses, rule out ADHD and learning disabilities, measure intellectual, neurocognitive, and academic functioning, determine special education eligibility for children and adolescents, evaluate emotional and interpersonal functioning, and document the need for accommodations at school or work. ABH emphasizes that assessment at a psychologist-led clinic offers more depth than the screening typically possible in a primary care setting.
- Clarify complex mental health diagnoses
- Rule out ADHD and learning disabilities
- Intellectual, neurocognitive, and academic testing
- Special-education eligibility evaluations
- Emotional and interpersonal functioning
- Accommodation documentation for school or work
Psychotherapy for Adults
Adult psychotherapy at ABH is integrative, drawing on psychodynamic, family-systems, and cognitive-behavioral principles, with clinicians using an evidence-based but individualized approach rather than a standardized protocol. Patients and clinicians collaborate on goals that address thoughts, feelings, relationship patterns, self-esteem, coping strategies, and risk behaviors. The practice aims not only to reduce troubling symptoms but also to identify and modify destructive relationship patterns, shore up inner resources, and help people face life's challenges with greater freedom and flexibility.
- Integrative psychodynamic / family-systems / CBT model
- Individualized, evidence-based treatment plans
- Targets symptoms, relationship patterns, self-esteem, coping
- Day, evening, and weekend appointments available
Psychotherapy for Children and Teens
Child and adolescent psychotherapy at ABH focuses on helping young clients navigate important developmental periods. Therapeutic work typically targets better relationships with family and peers, improved academic performance, more effective behavior regulation, greater emotional awareness, improved communication of feelings, the ability to think and reflect before acting, and the management of anxiety and depression symptoms.
- Improved family and peer relationships
- Improved academic performance
- Behavior regulation and emotional awareness
- Anxiety and depression symptom management
Couple and Family Therapy
Couple and family therapy at ABH is positioned as a structured intervention to facilitate communication, resolve disputes, and improve relationships. Clinicians identify problematic communication patterns, teach open-dialogue techniques, model healthy communication, and use active-listening strategies. Family therapy at ABH extends well beyond the traditional 'family with young children' model to include adult siblings in long-term disputes, senior couples living with adult children, and divorced partners navigating co-parenting. The clinic welcomes all couples and families — opposite-sex and same-sex, recently dating and long-term or married, with or without children — and supports families dealing with severe mental illness or chronic medical conditions such as cancer, diabetes, autoimmune disorders, and HIV/AIDS.
- Communication-pattern analysis and open-dialogue training
- Couples — dating, married, with or without children
- Same-sex couples and LGBTQ+ families welcomed
- Families coping with severe mental illness
- Families coping with chronic medical illness (cancer, diabetes, autoimmune, HIV/AIDS)
- Co-parenting and adult-sibling conflict support
Clinical Training and Faculty Ties
Several ABH clinicians hold faculty or training roles at Adler University, including Dr. Steven Migalski, who is in his 22nd year teaching psychological assessment, psychotherapy, qualitative research methods, and LGBTQ+ psychology in the Department of Psychology. Dr. Gregory Bozza has been a mental health contributor to WBEZ's 'The Afternoon Shift' (Chicago's NPR affiliate) and has presented on the DSM-5 at NYU/Post-Graduate Medical School, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center; he was also a keynote speaker at the National Conference of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association in Charlotte, NC.
- Faculty appointments at Adler University
- Presentations at NYU, Columbia Presbyterian, UTHSC
- WBEZ / NPR media contributions
- Keynote, Collaborative Family Healthcare Association
Office Locations and Contact
ABH maintains offices across Chicago's north side. The administrative office is at 1509 W Berwyn Ave, Suite 203, Chicago, IL 60640. Additional clinical locations are listed at 1484 W Farragut, 5412 N Clark St (Suite 212), and 5239 N Clark St. Phone: 773.616.4222. Email: [email protected]. The clinic's general response time to inquiries is one business day.
- Administrative office: 1509 W Berwyn Ave, Suite 203, Chicago, IL 60640
- Additional offices: 1484 W Farragut; 5412 N Clark St, Suite 212; 5239 N Clark St
- Phone: 773.616.4222
- Email: [email protected]