Gene Combs, MD

Evanston Family Therapy Center
1212 1/2 Elmwood Ave.
Evanston, IL 60202

Phone:847-866-7879
Email:gnc@narrativetherapychicago.com
Web: www.narrativetherapychicago.com
Facebook:www.facebook.com/Evanston-Family-Therapy-Center-212100838861416

With his partner Jill Freedman, Gene has practiced, studied, taught, and written about narrative therapy for over three decades. Gene and Jill’s writings include the books Narrative Therapy: The social construction of preferred realities and Narrative Therapy With Couples. . . and a Whole Lot More! Gene is co-director of Evanston Family Therapy Center. He has retired from his post as Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Chicago. He is also associate faculty at the Chicago Center for Family Health. He has served on the Committee on Accreditation in Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE) and on the board of the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA). With Jill Freedman, he received the Award for Innovative Contribution to Family Therapy from AFTA in 2009. In his work with young physicians, Gene hoped to help them preserve a human, interpersonal, and reflective focus in the face of corporate pressures toward pills, procedures, and, “productivity.” His current interests, reflected in his international teaching of narrative therapy, include understanding and undermining the effects of white supremacy and neoliberalism on individuals, families, communities and our planet.