Urban Balance Founder and CEO, Joyce Marter, LCPC is quoted in a recent Crain’s Chicago Business piece about Wendy Berger, CEO at Chicago-based real estate development firm WBS Equities, who lost her husband of 18 years to suicide last year.
The article shares Berger’s experience in forging a new identity as a single person and living life after loss.
Navigating the scene solo “definitely requires more energy and confidence,” says psychotherapist Joyce Marter, CEO of Chicago-based Urban Balance, a therapy clinic with seven area locations. Marter experienced a somewhat similar transition after a divorce in 2015. “It’s a little bit of feeling untethered,” she says. “You don’t have that fallback person who’s going to stand by your side.”