Our Team
Dr. Allison Minnich
Founder & Clinical Director
Licensed Clinical Psychological
Dr. Minnich earned her PhD in Psychological Clinical Science at North Dakota State University and her undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at Linden Oaks Hospital in Naperville, where she treated adolescents and adults in partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs, often working with significant anxiety and mood difficulties. She has also completed intensive coaching training through the Coaching and Positive Psychology (CAPP) Institute. Before founding her own practice, she was Assistant Director of a Chicago group practice, where she saw clients of all ages and supervised other clinicians.
She specializes in treating anxiety, OCD, ADHD, and mood disorders in teens and adults. Her work draws on treatments with strong research support, including ERP and I-CBT for OCD, along with CBT, DBT, ACT, and SPACE, matched to what each client needs. She founded the Chicago Center for Behavioral Health to bring together the two things that make therapy work: proven, skill-based methods that help people move forward, and a relationship in which they feel genuinely understood.
Within these evidence-based methods, Dr. Minnich keeps the focus on the individual client and their goals. She sees her role as helping people build a meaningful life in line with their values, and she views a strong therapeutic relationship as essential to that work. She brings compassion, genuine regard, and humor to it.
Dr. Minnich is a member of the American Psychological Association, the International OCD Foundation, and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. She has published peer-reviewed journal articles and a book chapter, and she speaks regularly in the community, including talks for professionals and trainings for local high school staff.
Dr. Abby Salat
Director of Child & Adolescent Program
LCPC, Ed.D., NCSP
Navigating the school years and early adulthood can be filled with unique hurdles. For the past decade, Dr. Salat has worked directly within schools to support students from kindergarten through age 21 as they face these exact challenges. As a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with a doctorate in School Psychology, she brings a deep understanding of how a student’s emotional well-being impacts their daily life and learning.
Whether conducting psychoeducational evaluations to uncover a student’s strengths or providing individual and group therapy, Dr. Salat creates a warm, safe, and supportive space. Her clinical expertise includes working with individuals experiencing anxiety, perfectionism, ADHD, mood-disorders, learning differences, trauma, and Autism. An alumna of Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, Dr. Salat completed her graduate and doctoral training at Loyola University Chicago, equipping her with the evidence-based tools necessary to help her clients and their families build resilience and thrive.
I believe that a strong, collaborative partnership between client, therapist, and family is the foundation of meaningful change, especially when working with children and adolescents. In our sessions, I strive to build a genuine relationship rooted in trust, warmth, and humor that set the stage for children and adolescents to flourish.
Kelly Wynne
Teen and Adult Therapist
Licensed Professional Counselor
Kelly’s path to becoming a therapist began with a deep interest in understanding people’s experiences. Before entering the mental health field, she spent eight years working as a journalist, hearing stories from individuals across a wide range of backgrounds and life circumstances. That experience inspired her passion for helping people navigate challenges with greater self-understanding, resilience, and compassion. Kelly works with teens and adults navigating OCD, anxiety, trauma and PTSD, relationship concerns, life transitions, and questions of identity and self-discovery.
Kelly specializes in the treatment of OCD using Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT). She also has a particular interest in helping clients navigate relationship challenges, major life transitions, and the ways anxiety and trauma can impact one’s sense of self. Her approach integrates evidence-based therapies including ACT, CBT, and DBT within a trauma-informed, collaborative framework that honors each client’s unique experiences and goals.
Kelly earned her Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University and joined Chicago Center for Behavioral Health after completing her internship at SamaraCare Counseling. Known for her warmth and authenticity, she strives to create a therapeutic space where clients feel both supported and empowered to pursue meaningful change, deepen self-trust, and build lives aligned with their values.
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