Therapists in Jefferson Park, Chicago, IL

I believe therapy should be a supportive experience. Using a strength-based approach, I work hard to help my clients navigate emotions, develop coping skills and strengthen relationships. While working towards their goals, I value understanding individual experiences and underlying emotions. My work is centered around lifting constraints which prevent change and exploring new behaviors and thought patterns.

Are you feeling stuck? Do you want to feel more connected to the people around you? If so, you have come to the right place. With a holistic approach in mind, I will provide an open, nonjudgmental and accepting environment in which we can collaborate to explore your feelings, thoughts and patterns. I believe that human relationships are powerful and healing and hope to create an authentic and strong relationship with all my clients.

"Should I stay or should I go?" This is the age old question asked to me, for the last 10 years by just about every couple experiencing distress that I've sat with. If you are reading this, my guess is that you asked yourself the exact same question at some point...Stay? Or Go? If you are struggling to find the right path for you in this relationship - I can help. As Psychologist, Clinical Therapist & an expert in the science of love, I specialize in helping people rebuild their attachment w/ each other, reduce conflict, repair trust, create positive feelings, and take control of emotional & physical symptoms that hold you back.

As a therapist, I believe in the power of self-awareness in helping people overcome adversity. Trained in Systems Therapy at the Family Institute at Northwestern University, my orientation is to use relationships to strengthen our understanding of one another, and of ourselves. I value the humanistic experience most of all, and strive to learn as much as possible about one's past motivations and ways of coping. I also believe that the therapeutic relationship is the key ingredient in effecting change. I use compassion and acceptance as tools to help create space for that change.

I am a licensed marriage and family therapist committed to working with individuals and couples looking to address relationship and intimacy issues, sexual difficulties or dysfunctions, infidelity, anxiety, and self-esteem. I strongly believe that relationships– whether with ourselves or others– greatly impact our life satisfaction. Getting the opportunity to help clients navigate and strengthen the connection and balance within their relationships to self and others is such a meaningful and fulfilling experience.

Sarah is a Licensed Mental Health Therapist at Millennium Counseling Center and received her MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Northwestern University. As a former collegiate athlete, Sarah understands how the mind and body connection is crucial in its ability to cope with life's stressors. Sarah’s theoretical orientation is grounded in a psychodynamic approach that promotes healing through past wounds so you can become the person you are meant to be. She believes it’s imperative to create a safe and therapeutically sound space through her compassionate demeanor. She promotes healing while nurturing growth in each client.

I specialize in providing therapy to couples. As a relationally-trained therapist, I bring curiosity to the ways circularity works in couple relationships: how are patterns co-created and maintained? Through a collaborate and creative process, clients will grow individual and relational self-awareness. Together, we will consider the importance of validation and curiosity in reducing conflict. I support clients in naming emotions, needs, and hurts, so that they may become bids for connection, instead of hidden sources of detachment.

When your relationship is suffering, you're suffering. Oftentimes, terribly so. Maybe the partner you used to feel so close to now seems more like a distant stranger. Maybe a betrayal has left you outraged and alone. Maybe all the fighting and miscommunication makes you wonder at times what you ever saw in this person at all.

I work with individuals, families, and couples. Common topics I can support you with include: navigating relationships, communication, high conflict with your partner, fighting over the same issues, family conflict and trauma, attachment and different attachment styles in your relationship, infidelity, dating, self-esteem, anxiety, depression, stress management, role of spirituality and religion in your relationship, and increasing self-awareness. I also work from a culturally sensitive stance and can help you if you're faced with racism, classism, sexism, colorism, and more.