Location
3001 North Southport Avenue
2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60657
About
Finances
- Session Fee: $180 per session
- Couples Session Fee: $180 per session
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Blue Cross
- Blue Shield
- BlueCross and BlueShield
- Out-of-Network
- Out of Network
Qualifications
- Years in Practice: 15 Years
- License: Illinois / 149019657
- School: University of Chicago
- Year Graduated: 2010
Additional Credentials
- Certificate: Certified Clinical Trauma and Grief Specialist
- Certificate Date: 2020
- Certificate: Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional
- Certificate Date: 2020
Endorsements
Astute Counseling & Wellness Services 's Groups
Autistic Adults Support Group
ABOUT THE THERAPIST Nahime Aguirre, MA, LSW will be hosting a virtual social support group for autistic adults throughout Illinois. After her own diagnosis as an autistic adult, Nahime has learned and applied research-based mental health supports for other autistic adults. Together with her clients, Nahime works to support sensory integration into mental health therapy. She helps ASD adults feel better in their own skin by working on integrating disability empowerment, sensory affirmation, and community in their daily lives.
Mindfullness Groups- Meditation, Movement and Yoga
Mindfulness exercises are ways of paying attention to the present moment using techniques like meditation, breathing, and yoga. Training helps people to become more aware of their thoughts, feelings, and body sensations so that instead of being overwhelmed by them, they’re better able to manage them. Allowing the mind to slow and settle through meditation and present moment awareness. Also facilitating the mind-body connection creating a safe, calming and warm atmosphere with guided relaxation. Conscious breathing practices that are calming for body, mind, and heart and activate the relaxation response and allow for emotional release.
Location
3001 North Southport Avenue
2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60657
Specialties
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Marital and Premarital
Issues
- ADHD
- Asperger's Syndrome
- Autism
- Bipolar Disorder
- Career Counseling
- Chronic Illness
- Coping Skills
- Developmental Disorders
- Divorce
- Dual Diagnosis
- Eating Disorders
- Education and Learning Disabilities
- Family Conflict
- Grief
- Grief, Trauma, systemic issues, stress and COVID
- Infertility
- Infidelity
- Intellectual Disability
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Men's Issues
- Obesity
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
- Racial Identity
- Relationship Issues
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Sex Therapy
- Sexual Abuse
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Spirituality
- Sports Performance
- Stress
- Transgender
- Trauma and PTSD
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
- Weight Loss
- Women's Issues
Mental Health
- Mood Disorders
- Personality Disorders
Sexuality
- Bisexual
- LGBTQ+
- Lesbian
Client Focus
Age
- Elders (65+)
- Adults
Communities
- Bisexual Allied
- Body Positivity
- Cancer
- Gay Allied
- HIV / AIDS Allied
- Intersex Allied
- Lesbian Allied
- Little Person Allied
- Non-Binary Allied
- Open Relationships Non-Monogamy
- Queer Allied
- Racial Justice Allied
- Sex-Positive, Kink Allied
- Single Mother
- Transgender Allied
- Veterans
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
- Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA)
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Compassion Focused
- Culturally Sensitive
- Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
- Emotionally Focused
- Existential
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Feminist
- Gottman Method
- Interpersonal
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Multicultural
- Narrative
- Psychoanalytic
- Psychodynamic
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Strength-Based
- Structural Family Therapy
- Trauma Focused
Modality
- Individuals
- Couples
- Family