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Assisted Awareness
Psychological and Counseling Services

24109 W. Lockport Street
Plainfield IL 60544

Tel: 815-436-1101 fax: 815-436-1121

Richard "Bo" Travis, Psy.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Assisted Awareness is a name my wife gave the business. She thought it was appropriate to my counseling approach. I employ a personal responsibility model and assist clients toward living deliberately, owning choices, and being compassionate toward oneself and others. .

I am dedicated to living more mindfully and to helping those who choose the same to do so. It is easy to become too busy with all of our commitments. We often are hard on ourselves when we feel we have not achieved all that we have imagined we could or should do. As we become more mindful, we realize that many of the pressures we experience are of our own making, and we can do something to change our experience.

    My approach as a counselor has been shaped by my life experiences. Following high school I served in the US Navy for six years as a nuclear power plant electrician. Over the next 25 years I went to school in Georgia, Alaska, Colorado and Illinois. My undergraduate training in Georgia sparked my interest in the expression of spirituality across world religions. Following my undergraduate education I worked in sales, real estate, and as a laborer before working as a counselor. I was trained in Behaviorism and Humanistic Psychotherapy in Alaska, Community Counseling in Colorado, and Adlerian Psychology in Chicago.
    Additional training included a weeklong Mindfulness Retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh in Wisconsin, and a weekend Jesuit retreat in Illinois. I encourage clients toward greater responsibility for themselves through increased awareness of patterns of thinking, believing, feeling and behaving.
   Increasing awareness helps people make more conscious choices. Empathic understanding is indispensable in my approach. Otherwise, I am eclectic in my use of techniques, which may include cognitive-behavioral, existential, Adlerian, and mindfulness techniques.

Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind.

Services Provided
    I conduct psychological evaluations of adults and adolescents for the courts. I also provide individual psychtherapy for adults, adolescents and children as young as six years old. I am available for couples counseling and family counseling using a structural family counseling approach.
    I supervise two Licensed Professional Counselors. Rebecca Ehler, M.A., LPC, is a counselor with her Master's Degree in Counseling. You may contact her at 847-494-0143.
    Philip Kocisko, M.A., LPC, has his Master's Degree in Counseling. You may contact Philip directly for counseling appointments by e-mail at p.kocisko@yahoo.com, or at 815-409-6809. Philip's website is www.hopefulhealing.com
    Rebecca and Philip are seeing clients with insurance under my clinical supervision.
    Currently, I am not accepting new insurance clients unless you have been referred to me specifically by a friend or an accepted referral source (i.e., psychiatrists or treatment programs with whom I have a relationship). If you are interested in my services, you may contact me through my answering service at the number listed above, or you may e-mail me through the Psychology Today Therapists Directory website. You may also direct questions to me about Rebecca and Philip through the Psychology Today website.