Dr. Bianka Hardin

I (she/her) am a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and owner of Centered Therapy Chicago, PLLC. I started CTC in 2014 with the mission to help children, adolescents, and adults improve their mental health and quality of life. I have been a trauma therapist for almost 25 years and am actively involved in my continuous learning and growth in this area from a personal and professional lens. I am very interested in cultural, systemic, and intergenerational factors that impact our health and well-being. I love being a therapist. I specialize in working with trauma survivors and those in the healing professions. It is rewarding for me to support my clients who are also in the mental health field. Being a therapist is hard, and we can all benefit from getting additional support for the important work we are doing. It’s not uncommon for mental health professionals to struggle with vicarious trauma or burnout, especially with how difficult things are in our world. I also really love supervision, consultation, teaching, and training, and I offer consultation to therapists who are interested in receiving case consultation, supervision, or additional support in their professional development. l fell in love with teaching and mentoring in graduate school and started adjunct teaching right after I graduated. My teaching career includes the Chicago School of Professional Psychology as a Full-time and Part-Time Professor as well as the former Associate Department Chair. I started supervising clinicians in training in the early 2000s when I was the Assistant Director and Director at the Village of Hoffman Estates Department of Health and Human Services, and I have also supervised Doctoral Level Interns at Pillars. I have built CTC with an emphasis on learning, growth and development, and I am involved in training at CTC both in our training program and at the CTC Training Center. I present and consult on issues related to trauma, child abuse prevention, self-care, mindfulness, and trauma stewardship.