Jordan Dunmead

Jordan DunmeadLMFT

Therapist at Live Oak Chicago · Chicago

2222 N Elston Ave Ste 300, Chicago, IL 60622

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About Jordan Dunmead

Jordan Dunmead is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT) and clinical supervisor at Live Oak Chicago. Jordan's specialization areas include sexual orientation, gender identity, and kink identity development, relational diversity and non-monogamy, sexual trauma recovery, and family-of-origin issues, approached through an anti-racist, intersectional feminist perspective. Jordan describes their own identity in first person: “I am a white, queer, polyamorous, Jewish agender Woman.” Jordan centers the therapeutic relationship as the vehicle for change and holds an MS in Marriage and Family Therapy from The Family Institute at Northwestern University.

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2222 N Elston Ave Ste 300, Chicago, IL 60622

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2222 N Elston Ave Ste 300, Chicago, IL 60622

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2222 N Elston Ave Ste 300, Chicago, IL 60622

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2222 N Elston Ave Ste 300, Chicago, IL 60622

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2222 N Elston Ave Ste 300, Chicago, IL 60622

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2222 N Elston Ave Ste 300, Chicago, IL 60622

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Live Oak Chicago

2222 N Elston Ave Ste 300, Chicago, IL 60622

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2222 N Elston Ave Ste 300, Chicago, IL 60622

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Cat Kliegle

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2222 N Elston Ave Ste 300, Chicago, IL 60622

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2222 N Elston Ave Ste 300, Chicago, IL 60622

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