Dr. Schemper’s approach to therapy

The values that guide his work as a coach and therapist include hospitality, creativity, and growth. These values help create a working relationship where you feel safe, heard, seen, accepted , supported and challenged.  His goal is to create a space where you can discover and experience your feelings, struggles, limitations, gifts and most importantly your goodness.  His approach often involves identifying  the beliefs and stories you hold about yourself and determining their origin, whether they still serve you, need to be released or re-written. He believes that in spite of and sometimes because of life’s troubles, it is possible for you to flourish and construct a life that is rich, meaningful and contains joy. 

Some of his tools are: best practices of the profession, compassionate curiosity, humor, mindfulness, and instilling hope. When requested he helps his clients access and integrate their faith and spirituality into their healing and flourishing.  He particularly enjoys helping clients design experiments of change that increase psychological flexibility and teach new ways.   

About Dr. Thomas Schemper

Dr. Thomas Schemper is a licensed Clinical Psychologist in the state of Illinois and received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Northwestern University with a specialty in middle and later life.  He has been practicing as a psychologist and coach for over 40 years and is a founding partner of Heritage Professional Associates and the director of the Replogle Center for Counseling and Well-Being in Chicago. He does relationship, executive and performance optimization coaching. Working  with adults and couples his specialties include anxiety, loss, grief, infidelity, trust issues, trauma, men's issues, life transitions and helping clients discover a clearer picture of their life’s purpose. His practice also focuses on the challenges and opportunities related to middle and later life including the re-defining of one’s sense of vocation in the middle years.  He is trained in Gestalt, ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and mindfulness and meditation practices. His relationship coaching is based heavily on Gottman’s research and IRT (Imago Relationship Theory). He enjoys providing supervision and consultation to other clinicians.

He derives renewal and satisfaction spending time with his wife, children and grandchildren.  He loves to  travel  and be in nature and when he is, his camera is always with him.  He is committed to ongoing personal growth work to support his body, mind and spirit which in turn improves his ability to be present with his clients. He has a special place in his heart for Latin America and has led numerous work trips to Ecuador, Honduras and Guatemala.