Therapists in Chicago, IL

As a black, mixed-race, pansexual, cisgender woman and part of other pleasure-focused communities, I know from experience how important it is to create a safe, empowering and affirming therapy space that will foster trust and allow us to acknowledge the nuances and beauties of your intersecting identities and unique inner self. I enjoy working with adults from diverse backgrounds and am committed to understanding your unique experience.

Welcome to the start of recovery and road to healing! Together we can continue creating the life you seek, navigate the questions you have, find the answers you want, and move through your concerns to manifest the life you want to live. I specialize in helping people with OCD, anxiety, depression, and trauma. I also support folks with multicultural identities and anyone who wants to work on maintaining and building relationships. No topic is off the table but rather invited in for the discussion!

Clients come to me and receive compassionate care without negative judgment as a means to make meaning of the events of their lives. That new understanding, gained in a supportive coaching relationship with the therapist, becomes the foundation for positive change. Open and self-aware clients tend to want validation of their thoughts and challenges to what hasn't worked. Skeptical clients tend to desire safety and assurance that someone is on their side. Regardless of the category, clients tend to get what they need from one session to the next.

"The longest journey that a man must take in his lifetime is the 18 inches from his head to his heart." This is the basis of Head/Heart Therapy. Utilizing various therapeutic methods, each client is treated as a unique individual to facilitate healing. Head/Heart Therapy is a private therapy practice where clients can experience non-judgmental, open, and authentic therapy. We value working with unique people from diverse backgrounds, life styles, and points of view.

My special expertise is working with people who want to feel better. People who want to explore themselves, who want help in figuring out why they feel bad, and what they can do in order to feel better. I create space where you can feel comfortable to talk about uncomfortable things. I help people dealing with depression, anxiety, loneliness, grief, substance abuse; those having relationship issues, that would include couples/marital, parent-child, brothers-sisters, coworkers, or friends. You'll find out that you're not so different from everyone else; we all struggle.

Eroticism is adult play: ideally it is expansive, vibrant, joyful, and stress-free. Living in a sex-shaming society damages our ability to have a loving, easy relationship to our erotic, sensual, and sexual identities. That damage can lead to conflict and disconnection with ourselves and our intimate others. Our relational health is a necessary ingredient in our overall life satisfaction. Most of us long for our intimate relationships to be a safe haven from the stress, overwhelm, and chaos of our lives. When that isn’t the case, it can lead us to feel lost, uneasy, and wondering how to find our way back to a feeling of security.

"Have you every come to a point in your life when you feel stuck? Need someone to listen, emphasize and provide a safe environment where you can be vulnerable?" I will provide you the opportunity to explore and process issues that may keep you in a state of suffering. Learn how to affect change, build relationships, gain confidence and enhance personal growth with my genuine, encouraging and insight-and-action-oriented approach. By supporting and guiding you through crisis, trauma and other hurdles, I can help you develop decision-making skills so that you can become a stronger individual and create positive changes in your life.

I am a genderqueer human being providing supportive counseling services to people who are neurodivergent, queer, nerdy, and live alternative lifestyles. My sessions are held online 100 percent to make it convenient for my clients in their busy life to receive support. I've supported clients in role-playing therapy through the use of Dungeons & Dragons, led queer support groups, and am currently CSTIP (Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional) certified so I may expand to couples work in the future. I've taught BDSM/Kink affirming seminars and have a background in understanding nutrition and body neutrality.

Allison Sheade is a feminist psychodynamic, relational, trauma-focused LCPC in Chicago. Her style is warm, empathic, collaborative, and direct. Allison has an active style, and clients enjoy knowing that she will offer insights, interpretations, and feedback that are effective, helpful, and supportive. Allison has worked in community mental health, at the Women's Center at Northwestern University, and in outpatient settings. Allison works with diverse populations and operates from a multicultural perspective, valuing differences of race, ethnicity, culture, religion, gender and sexuality (+ poly & kink), ableness, and world-view.

I believe trusting relationships, creativity, and community are at the heart of inner peace. I offer you a compassionate, empathetic, playful, and non-judgmental space. Trauma influences life, the body, and brain in complex ways and therefore sometimes in therapy we need to talk, and sometimes we need to pause, move, or create. I am informed by attachment theory, psychodynamic approach, and embrace the relational element of healing. As a musician, and with music therapy training, I understand the regulatory power of art and invite you to integrate expressive elements. I offer music-centered and songwriting focused sessions.

Specialized Care: Addiction & Co-Occurring Counselor, Consult, Coaching, Interventions Couples & Family Counseling Support individuals for whom non-traditional approaches to treatment have been ineffective and overly constrictive (e.g. AA)

I believe that therapy is a healthy and proactive way to facilitate healing, growth, and wellness. I am a dedicated and compassionate counselor who is committed to helping people find individualized solutions to personal challenges. I work within the holistic framework that encompasses many different approaches in order to build trust and ensure you are empowered in your journey. Often we come in for therapy to address a specific concern and through that begin to discover other areas of our lives that we want to make meaningful change in. I am dedicated to to providing you a safe and collaborative space to do this.

I specialize in working with sexual desire discrepancy and intimacy. Sexual desire discrepancy is when one person in a relationship wants sex more or differently than their partner(s). It is very common and occurs in otherwise happy and healthy relationships. Although common, desire discrepancy can lead to severe relational discord. Through a combination of psychosexual education, deep couple's work, and a compilation of the leading sexual desire discrepancy theories, I have designed a way of addressing desire discrepancy that offers you and your partner(s) a new way to be sexual together. It is not easy work, but it is rewarding.

My practice works with a diverse population. I specialize in addiction, both Sex Addiction and a range of other addictions. I run groups for sex addicts and for the partners of sex addicts. I also specialize in trauma and work with adolescent and adult trauma survivors, both male and female. The practice also works with the LGBTQ community.

I believe you have everything you need within to resolve the issues and problems that disturb you and your relationships. I help people who have survived abuse, recent or early traumas, to diminish and remove blocks to living the life they want. I understand how anxiety, depression and recurring or intrusive thoughts or memories can leave you feeling undermined, depleted or confused, struggling to make meaning in your life.

My work is grounded in the relief of symptoms of anxiety, depression and stress through the reframing of negative thoughts and their connection to physical symptoms. Focus is placed on the processing of issues that disrupt understanding and compassion for the self. My ideal client is someone who desires to find a safe place to spend time looking inside for answers that may unlock the patterns to a more passionate life.

Lakeisha Nowicki, LCPC is the ideal psychotherapist for those seeking to repair their relationships. Whether it is the relationship you have with yourself or with others, Lakeisha assists in recognizing maladaptive coping patterns while focusing on the freedom to choose better for yourself each and every day. Lakeisha’s strengths are healing through self-reflection, connectedness, laughter, and motivating others to step into their purpose.

My philosophy of care is grounded in the notion that every person has a gift within themselves. People do not need to be fixed; they need support to be able to return to their core self. I am here to support you whether you are going through a transition, dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, or other mental health challenges. Please consider reaching out if you want to make meaning of your life, use difficulty as an opportunity to grow, and/or you are someone deeply committed to improving society. I am here to provide a place to process, balance, and develop.

This a group practice that employs clinicans of various ethnicities and backgrounds. People come to therapy due to feeling excessive stress at work, at home, or in their relationships. They find the pressures of everyday life have exceeded their abilities, overwhelmed their senses, and left them with an inability to cope. They are often having problems with school, completing tasks, getting along with others at work, and finding activities enjoyable. We believe in the resiliency of the human spirit, and that therapy is a process of exploring and getting to know oneself.