Zak Mucha

Zak Mucha, LCSW, is a psychoanalyst in private practice as well as adjunct faculty and an executive board member at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. He spent seven years working as the supervisor of an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program, providing 24/7 services to persons suffering from severe psychosis, substance abuse issues, and homelessness. Mucha has worked as a counselor and consultant for U.S. combat veterans undergoing training for digital forensic investigations in child pornography.

Before going into the clinical field, Mucha has worked as a freelance journalist, truck driver, furniture mover, construction worker, union organizer, staff member at a juvenile DCFS locked unit, and taught briefly at a women’s prison. He is the author of Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self-Defense as well as a collection of poetry, Shadow Box (Albireo MKG, 2019), and a novel, The Heavyweight Champion of Nothing (Dockyard Press, 2021).

More can be found at www.zakmucha.com.