"Dr. Schmaus approaches patients with compassion for the challenges that anxiety has brought to their lives. He teaches patients how to manage their worries and fears so that they can better tolerate uncertainty. By encouraging patients to be willing to face their fears, he enhances their ability to successfully manage stressful situations. When working with children and teens, he often involves the parents in treatment, providing guidance and strategies for helping their children to feel less anxious."

"Dr. Pojas works with children, adolescents, and adults who struggle with anxiety disorders and obsessive compulsive disorders. She provides evidence-based treatments using cognitive behavioral therapy and exposure response prevention. Her specializations include OCD, Hoarding Disorder, and anxiety disorders."

"You're tossing and turning with your mind churning over What Ifs or cringeworthy moments. Maybe you're snapping at people or pushing them away. You feel stressed or overwhelmed. It might seem like everyone else is able to do things so much easier or better. It doesn't have to be this way."

"I am a licensed Clinical Psychologist who has been in practice for over 25 years. I have come to believe that so much of what makes therapy work is the relationship which is established between my clients and me. If you come and see me I will spend a good amount of time really getting to know you: trying to understand your therapeutic issues as well as your history, personal strengths, and weaknesses."

"I believe you are the expert of your life. Within you are the answers to many of the problems you face. My role is to come along side you to help clear the obstacles that are preventing real growth and change. We establish a collaborative relationship built on mutual respect and trust. I provide an environment where you will feel safe, supported, heard and understood. Clients describe me as empathetic, genuine, and direct."

"I believe that a positive therapeutic experience is rooted in feeling accepted, understood, and truly "heard" in a safe, nurturing space. Creative, empathic, and interactive, I will partner with you to develop a personalized treatment plan, individualized strategies, and practical tools tailored to your unique needs and goals. As an experienced clinical-health psychologist, I specialize in working with people struggling with: Food & Weight Issues (binge eating, weight-loss surgery, weight management), Life Changes & Transitions (job, relationship, divorce, health, parenting), Substance Abuse/Addiction Recovery, Stress Management, Anxiety, and Depression. I look forward to working together to create lasting, positive change in your life!"

"Sometimes, it can be a challenge to see "the forest through the trees." Having someone to talk to who is outside your circle of family and friends, to reflect back what's important to you, can be the crucial piece that helps you build the bridge back to yourself. This is one aspect of what I do when working with people interested in creating improved health, positive relationships, or achieving an important goal. If you are struggling with depression or anxiety, or wanting to discover your specific formula for happiness, I'd consider it a privilege to work with you."

"The stressful world in which we live often leaves us feeling overwhelmed and struggling to manage the demands placed upon us. You may experience irritable moods, anxiety, depression, or unable to find joy in things. Your relationships may be affected and you may find you are unable to be the person you once were and know you can be. It is my goal, as a therapist, to create a warm, supportive, understanding, and collaborative partnership with clients. My clinical expertise includes: working with high functioning adults, people struggling with serious mental illnesses, and individuals with developmental disabilities."

"At Heart Light, we believe that personal growth is a natural psychological process that fundamentally belongs to you, not to us. Some mental health professionals seem to imagine themselves as mental and emotional surgeons, whose goal is to identify problems and then fix them for you. We envision ourselves as more akin to doctors that deliver babies. We are ready to intervene as and when needed, but our primary role is to facilitate a natural process that belongs, first and foremost, to you. Our goal is to guide and encourage your growth by helping you to empower yourself."

"I have an extensive background in psychotherapy and research. In my clinical work, I specialize in CBT for trauma, ADHD and mood disorders injecting positive psychology and DBT as needed. I'm familiar with psychodynamic therapy as well, but usually begin with clients on CBT principles and techniques as a way to get comfortable and build a better treatment relationship. I perform assessments of all types, ADHD, PTSD, Dementia, Brain Injury, Learning Disorders, and all mood, psychotic and anxiety disorders. I am a consultant Psychologist, invited speaker, inservice provider, and trainer of staff at several skilled nursing facilities in the Chicagoland area."

"I work with individuals from all walks of life: adults, couples, adolescents, children and families in addressing a variety of challenges such as depression, anxiety, trauma, identity issues, self-esteem, substance abuse, and life transitions (i.e. divorce, immigration, illness), family planning, family relationships, and parenting. I am also experienced in doing mental health and substance abuse evaluations for courts and administrative purposes. My approach to therapy takes on psychodynamic perspective based on the belief that person must attend to the whole self -mind, body, and environment- to achieve understanding and self-realization."

"I am focused on helping you overcome self-defeating behaviors, manage feelings, and sort through conflicting thoughts. I believe in the resiliency of human beings, and my therapeutic approach is to empower you to make whatever changes you'd like to make so you can have a fulfilling life. I can offer you practical tools as well as hope, comfort and support for when life is hard."

"My goal is to help people change the ways in which we keep ourselves stuck, unhappy, and functioning below our potential. I have extensive training in and use a variety of different approaches/models tailored to the individual(s) and their concerns. I work with people who have intimacy and relationship issues, chronic illness, self-esteem issues, conflicts, pervasive feelings of unhappiness, loneliness, loss, anxiety, depression and/or emptiness, self-defeating patterns or just a general sense of being out of sync with themselves, their feelings and the other people in their world. My style is warm, non-judgmental, empathic, collaborative and direct."

"I am a Licensed Clinical Psychologist at The Center for Mindfulness and Behavior Therapy specializing in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to treat disorders of emotion regulation in teens or adults. As part of our comprehensive DBT program, clients participate in individual psychotherapy, group skills training, and have 24/7 availability to phone skills coaching. DBT is an evidence-based practice and the gold standard treatment for teens and adults exhibiting self-endangering behaviors and/or emerging or established borderline personality traits, such as self-injury, suicidal thinking, impulsivity, conflictual relationships, chronic depression or anxiety, substance abuse, or emotional instability."

"Compassion-focused psychological care is available to you, now. I am committed to strengthening your psychological health, and believe it is a critical part of your overall wellness. As a guardian of your psychological wellness, I listen to you and partner in your care to address psychological and relationship challenges using science-based approaches to therapy. I practice according to the latest science in psychology to help diagnose, treat and prevent psychological symptoms, bringing applied science and data to work to make it accessible for your life, and bring about real, lasting change."

"The Center for Mindfulness and Behavior Therapy at Segal Behavioral Health (SBH) is a specialty clinic that serves teens and adults who are exhibiting self-endangering behaviors and/or emerging/established borderline personality traits, such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders, self-harm, impulsivity, post-traumatic stress, and/or emotional instability. Our goal is to teach every patient how to recognize and face their emotions skillfully with confidence and courage. Our scientifically-based interventions incorporate skills to help patients overcome the self-destructive coping behaviors that have plagued their lives, to create new perspective and a greater level of self-control."

"Would you like to: grow and heal as an individual? Learn how to understand, make sense of and enhance your current relationships? Let go of past difficulties and patterns that continue to overshadow your life? If so, I can assist you on this journey. I have worked with people who experience a variety of emotional issues. Most commonly, people I see suffer from depression and/or anxiety. I provide a safe and nurturing environment to allow for exploration, insight, and emotional growth. The pace of treatment is set by you and together we will overcome obstacles that stand in your way."

"If your child or teen has been: having a tantrum or getting angry over the slightest problem, having trouble organizing their materials or homework, not turning in assignments, arguing whenever you say no, struggling with making or keeping friends or complying with teachers, I can help. I also work with couples, adults, and families to give you tools for better communication, calmer households, and help you to understand each other's point of view. My ultimate goal is for you to have lifelong skills, so you no longer need me. I'm looking forward to working with you."