Chicago Counseling Services + Treatment Areas

PANIC ATTACK THERAPY + ANXIETY THERAPY

With Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), talk therapy, and exposure therapy, patients have experienced profound relief from generalized anxiety and panic attacks. I’ll work with you to treat discomfort and manage anxiety symptoms, whether new or longstanding.

DEPRESSION THERAPY + GRIEF COUNSELING

Empathy guides my establishment of a safe place for you to feel sadness and address grief. We’ll work, through insight-oriented therapy, to uncover family-of-origin vulnerabilities and other possible sources of pain. We’ll learn about you—with particular regard to your attachment style and to your feelings about being connected or dependent on others—as you have navigated your life so far. Often depression is a clarion call for changes to be made, spurring clients to countenance truths previously feared to be so destructive as to be unknowable.

BIPOLAR DISORDER

If you have received a bipolar disorder diagnosis, I can provide education and help you find a healthful, balanced lifestyle. I will work closely with your psychiatrist to assist as you monitor symptoms, track bipolar medication side effects and changes, and implement mood stabilizing counseling strategies. As your therapy treatment plan yields greater regulation and reliability, we will investigate historical and other factors that may have little to do with bipolar disorder but nonetheless bear significantly on your well-being.

PREGNANCY + PARENTING THERAPY

Did you know postpartum depression is the most common presenting issue for new moms? As a trainee in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs), I am ready to help you get through the enormous life change that new parenthood brings. I am trained to assess and aid when things get off track with possible hormonal changes, sleep schedules, and mood changes. When you are feeling as though you cannot face these changes alone, or if something feels wrong about how you or your new baby is adjusting, I can help. Anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), racing thoughts, mood imbalances — we can tackle these and other challenges together. 

If you wish to bring your baby to therapy please do. My office is a comfortable environment where new moms’ groups are run. I can refer you to one for extra support.

OTHER TREATMENT AREAS:

• ADHD

• Addiction

• DNA test surprises

• Codependency

• Divorce

• Eating Disorders

• Infertility

• Infidelity

• Mood Disorders

• Parenting

• Self-Harming

• Sleep or Insomnia

• Substance Abuse

• Trauma and PTSD

INCLUSIVE THERAPY

I encourage a body-positive outlook, welcome all genders, and fully support the Chicago LGBTQ+ community. My practice is committed to being inclusive regardless of race, culture, sexual orientation, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, military status, or any other differentiating characteristic.