Carl Hampton, LCSW
Board Secretary
Carl Hampton is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Mediator. He is a Clinical Lecturer in Northwestern
University’s Master of Science in Marital and Family Therapy Program. He is currently a Staff Therapist at The Family I
nstitute staff practice and formerly served as the Director of Community Programs. Mr. Hampton received his
undergraduate degree from The University of Wisconsin-Madison in Sociology with a specialization in Criminal Justice
and completed his Master of Social Work degree from the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of
Illinois-Chicago. Mr. Hampton has completed training in Ericksonian hypnotherapy, Bowen Systems based family
therapy, divorce mediation, and substance abuse treatment in addition to specialized training as a sport psychology
professional.
Currently, Mr. Hampton supervises second year Master of Science students individually as well as in groups in The Family
Institute’s Marriage and Family Therapy clinical training program. In the past, Mr. Hampton has supervised Masters-level social workers for licensure
at Jane Addams Hull House Association as well as Evanston High School. He also teaches a course, Working in a
Community Context: Becoming a Family Therapist in a Multicultural World, in which he utilizes an experiential as well as
didactic approach to developing awareness and sensitivity to issues germane to working clinically as a Family Therapist
in a multicultural environment.
M
r. Hampton has longstanding membership in the National Association of Social Workers as well as the Association for
Conflict Resolution. His areas of interests include substance abuse and dependence in adolescents, multi-systemic
treatments for substance abusing adolescents, divorce and post-divorce therapy with adults and adolescents, mediation
and conflict resolution, and helping parents to build effective, healthy parenting practices. He currently works as a
Treating Clinician with the National Football League’s substance abuse prevention and treatment program and also
provides clinical services for the Chicago Bears football club. He has also provided clinical services to the Northwestern
University Athletic Department as well as the National Basketball Association.
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