biography of Dr. Mona Fishbane
Mona studied at Wellesley College, where she received her B.A. in Philosophy in 1969.
She received her M.S. in 1974 and Ph.D. in 1979 in Clinical Psychology from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
Mona is the former Director of Couple Therapy Training at the Chicago Center for Family Health, a position she held from 1998 to 2017.
Mona has been a Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Chicago, and has taught at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Hebrew University Student Counseling Services in Jerusalem. She has worked as a psychologist at Stanford University Medical Center and McLean Hospital in Massachusetts.
Mona has received various honors and fellowships, including an NIMH Graduate Fellowship, and a Templeton Foundation grant to complete her book.
Mona received the 2017 Family Psychologist of the Year Award from the American Psychological Association, Society for Couple and Family Psychology.
She received the 2023 Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Award from the American Family Therapy Academy.
Mona has been an approved AAMFT supervisor and has served as a Board member of the American Family Therapy Academy. She is an Advisory Editor for the journal Family Process.
Mona lectures and gives workshops nationally and internationally, including frequent workshops at the Chicago Center for Family Health, the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York, The Family Institute at Northwestern University, and presentations at the annual American Family Therapy Academy meeting.
Her theoretical orientation is integrative, incorporating relational, systemic, intergenerational, neurobiological, and narrative approaches. Mona is a licensed clinical psychologist in New Jersey; and was for many years in private practice in the northern suburbs of Chicago, specializing in couple therapy and intergenerational family therapy.
She received her M.S. in 1974 and Ph.D. in 1979 in Clinical Psychology from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
Mona is the former Director of Couple Therapy Training at the Chicago Center for Family Health, a position she held from 1998 to 2017.
Mona has been a Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Chicago, and has taught at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Hebrew University Student Counseling Services in Jerusalem. She has worked as a psychologist at Stanford University Medical Center and McLean Hospital in Massachusetts.
Mona has received various honors and fellowships, including an NIMH Graduate Fellowship, and a Templeton Foundation grant to complete her book.
Mona received the 2017 Family Psychologist of the Year Award from the American Psychological Association, Society for Couple and Family Psychology.
She received the 2023 Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Award from the American Family Therapy Academy.
Mona has been an approved AAMFT supervisor and has served as a Board member of the American Family Therapy Academy. She is an Advisory Editor for the journal Family Process.
Mona lectures and gives workshops nationally and internationally, including frequent workshops at the Chicago Center for Family Health, the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York, The Family Institute at Northwestern University, and presentations at the annual American Family Therapy Academy meeting.
Her theoretical orientation is integrative, incorporating relational, systemic, intergenerational, neurobiological, and narrative approaches. Mona is a licensed clinical psychologist in New Jersey; and was for many years in private practice in the northern suburbs of Chicago, specializing in couple therapy and intergenerational family therapy.