My field of expertise is working with individuals experiencing anxiety, depression or relationship challenges and working with couples. I enjoy working with young adults in transition who are feeling uncertain about employment, relationships or future- a quarter-life crisis. My other areas of interest include working with individuals who have experienced trauma and coping with the difficult emotions those experiences bring. When working with couples, I work with developing positive communication and relational skills to increase closeness, effectively adjust to life's challenges, and manage stress, anxiety and depression. I also enjoy working with adolescents and families to increase closeness and improve communication skills.

You deserve to live a life with a calm and focused mind, a relaxed body, and a sense of wellbeing. Sessions with me involve a collaborative approach to help you improve relationships, ease your racing mind, relax physical tension, and live a more fulfilling and balanced life. Whether it be work stress, trauma, challenging relationships or addictive behaviors, I will help you explore the issues you are facing and cope with crisis better.

My counseling approach emphasizes how all individuals have the capabilities to live life authentically and with reduced stress. My goal is to help you utilize your strengths to achieve positive self-change and growth through the many transitions in life. I provide counseling for adults, couples, and older adults experiencing depression, low self esteem, anxiety, parental difficulties, relationship problems, substance abuse, anger, and stress related symptoms. I have training in teaching relaxation techniques and anger management skills including deep breathing and systematic desensitization.

I work best with individuals seeking coaching to manage difficult times, depression symptoms, and addressing experiences of social and community harm.

You want to feel calm, confident, and powerful in your own, unique skin in a world that doesn't always celebrate your various, intersecting identities. You want to do more than just survive and you need ideas and tools to help you get there. You want to feel free and happy without feeling like you have to hide parts of yourself. You want to feel like you have space to breathe. As a Gender and Certified Sex Therapist, I work with folks like you feeling anxious and lost about a transition you're experiencing in sex, gender, sexual identity, or relationships.

You want to feel emotions fully without shame. You want to be connected to your own sense of desire and purpose. You deserve a space to explore the parts of you that feel unknown, “unacceptable,” or taboo. My commitment in the therapeutic relationship is to welcome and value all aspects of your experience – the stories that reflect humor and resilience, and the parts that have been shamed or dismissed.

Katie is trained in several evidence-based therapy models and implements these strategies with her clients. She works collaboratively to develop personalized treatment plans and utilize a solution-focused approach to help clients attain their goals.

You want to feel grounded and secure in your relationships. You want to feel comfortable as yourself. You deserve this and so much more. With a background in marriage and family therapy, I see people in the context of their relationships. Every day, our lives are impacted by those around us and that may not always be an easy thing. I hope to help queer-identified individuals and partners find strength, intimacy, support and passion in their relationships.

My primary goal is to make you feel heard, seen, and understood. I help my clients tap into the resources and resiliency they already have to figure out how they can support themselves and ask for support from others. I work in a collaborative way with you to determine how you want to dig in with therapy and what works for you. You will learn to harness your existing strengths towards achieving your goals and lasting change. I help my clients give themselves permission to explore their identities and anxieties in a safe, affirming environment. I'm here to support you as you get curious about your past, present, and future.

At different points in our lives, the distance between “just being alive” and “thriving” can seem far too great. Oppressive factors, symptoms of trauma, depression and anxiety can hold you back. Know that healing is possible. My role is to be your active collaborator on your journey to inhabit your own life and embrace your unique aliveness. I offer a variety of therapeutic methods that help you connect with yourself, your relationships, and your own internal resilience.

**Not currently accepting new clients** I’m a big believer that therapy doesn’t have to be buttoned-up or artificial. It should be comfortable and real. I prefer to facilitate a casual, collaborative, & affirming environment where we can openly discuss anything that’s on your mind and empower you to explore who you are and how you relate to others. I work with individuals, couples, open/polyamorous relationships, and adult families. In addition, I specialize in working working with athletes, e-sports athletes, musicians, and fellow therapists.

Briarwood Counseling seeks to help people who are struggling to figure out how to feel better in their lives. I work with individuals, couples and families struggling with depression, anxiety, life and relationship transitions into and out of parenthood, grief, loss, and rebuilding after abuse and trauma experiences. I also help clients that aren't quite sure what is wrong but want to figure out what is wrong. Sometimes people just feel "stuck" and want their lives to look different or want to move into a more positive space. I help sift through the trouble and find solutions and move forward.

Looking for a therapist requires a leap of faith: that someone out there can actually understand, let alone help. Maybe you sense you need to make a change, but how to move forward is unclear. Or maybe you are going through something right now that feels too heavy to shoulder alone. In either case, therapy can be a place to find your footing. When we first meet, I will listen carefully to your story, then together we will identify what carries the potential to help. I offer a compassionate relationship you can rely on.

Thank you for clicking on my profile. I provide individual and couples counseling to adults. I specialize in the area sex addiction and help clients find freedom from their compulsive and risky behavior. I can assist the partners of sex addicts find healing, hope and wholeness. I am equipped to help you work through depression, anxiety, anger, brokenness, relational discord, grief, low self-esteem, trauma, and addiction. In couples therapy, I assist couples break negative cycles of interaction and help them to create new patterns of connection that are lasting. Find me at www.pneumachicago.com

Each of us is our own, unique universe, existing in a multiverse of connection with others. I am particularly attuned to how you and I connect, what patterns are created, what barriers exist, and what are the costs and benefits to you of maintaining or changing those. I am keenly aware how each of us is situated in a larger world of social relations, privilege, and oppression, and how those influence who we are. Through understanding and compassion, I can help you realize a more fulfilling, peaceful relationship with yourself and more satisfying relationships with others.

Practical. Relevant. Compassionate. Challenging and Gentle. Humorous and Kind. Respectful and Accepting. Warm and Creative. We'll work together with intention, mutual respect, and a collaborative spirit. I primarily work with adults and couples regarding relationship issues and parents encountering 'parenting.' ! Holding the unwavering belief that people have the capacity to improve the course of their lives, I have considerable tenacity in helping clients handle reoccurring issues, install new habits and ways of thinking/acting/feeling. I enjoy working with people who are motivated to do something different.

I believe that therapy belongs foremost to the patient. I believe that the verbal sharing of experiences allows one to hear themselves think and identify how they feel-gaining meaningful insights into who they are along the way. There is no need to know why exactly treatment is being sought. The only need is a willingness to know the self better, and a belief that through a collaborative dialogue, change is possible. My goal is to create the safe and trusting relationship necessary to allow the treatment process to unfold. I join my patients as a active collaborator, a sensitive observer and a discerning interpreter.

I have a low-pressure, warm approach focused on creating an environment of safety and encouragement. I believe It takes courage to reach out for help and I treat my clients and their concerns with the utmost respect. I believe that human connection is essential to our well being and that connection in the therapeutic relationship is essential to healing. I view therapy as a collaboration where we work together to discover and develop your strengths and resources to let go of old patterns and behaviors that are no longer helpful to you.

Through my work as a therapist I have come to believe deeply in the capacity of people to change. If we are feeling stuck in some ways, I don't think its because we want to be miserable or are in some way a "bad" person. We may simply lack the right kind of support to find our way out.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist that works with individuals & families struggling with eating disorders & comorbid issues, including, depression, anxiety, dual diagnosis, relationship issues & life transitions. From a systemic, psycho-dynamic foundation, I focus on past & present relationships and how behavioral patterns evolve over time. I believe the therapeutic relationship provides a safe space for the client to explore, uncover, and discover emotions. This allows the client to build trust, to take emotional risks, to challenge maladaptive coping in order to create new, more effective ways of managing painful emotions.