Blake Zweig

I've spent more than 22 years as a school psychologist — most of that time at Maple School in Northbrook — and what that experience gives me is something most clinicians don't have: an insider's view of what the social, emotional, and academic world actually looks like for kids and teens today. Not the idealized version. The real one.

I earned my B.S. in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and my M.A. in School Psychology along with an Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Disability Studies from Northern Arizona University. Over the course of my career I've worked with children and families in remarkably different environments — from Native American reservations in Northern Arizona to high schools of over 2,700 students in Northern Virginia and upstate New York — before settling on the North Shore.

I work with teens, young adults, and their parents. My areas of focus include emotional regulation and coping skills, mindful self-compassion, social problem-solving, social skill development, autism spectrum disorders, anxiety, executive functioning, and helping children, teens and young adults build the self-advocacy tools they need to thrive. I've received advanced training in Mindful Self-Compassion developed by Dr. Kristin Neff and Dr. Chris Germer, and in Ross Greene's Collaborative Proactive Solutions model to assist parents with chronically inflexible and easily frustrated children. I also provide parent coaching and special education consultation for families navigating school systems that haven't given them what they need.

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