Psychoanalytic Therapists in Chicago, IL
I am a first generation Nigerian American and consider myself a wounded healer someone who has experienced personal challenges and uses that experience, combined with evidence-based training, to support others in their healing and growth.
I am a first generation Nigerian American and consider myself a wounded healer someone who has experienced personal challenges and uses that experience, combined with evidence-based training, to support others in their healing and growth.
I believe everyone is capable of change, especially when one feels empowered and supportive to reach one’s goals. I use various treatment modalities, such as, cognitive behavioral therapy, person-centered, and solution focused treatment to assist my patients to gain personal insight and bring about healthy changes. I work collaboratively with my patients and families to offer support, insight, and opportunities for change. I help my patients identify personal strengths and additional resources to aide in their mental health. Most of all, I provide a safe, nurturing, therapeutic environment for my patients.
I believe everyone is capable of change, especially when one feels empowered and supportive to reach one’s goals. I use various treatment modalities, such as, cognitive behavioral therapy, person-centered, and solution focused treatment to assist my patients to gain personal insight and bring about healthy changes. I work collaboratively with my patients and families to offer support, insight, and opportunities for change. I help my patients identify personal strengths and additional resources to aide in their mental health. Most of all, I provide a safe, nurturing, therapeutic environment for my patients.
If you’ve landed here, you might be carrying more than most people can see. On the outside, it may look like you’re holding it all together—but inside, it can feel like you’re barely hanging on. Maybe you overthink, people-please, or struggle to ask for what you need without guilt. Healing isn’t about fixing yourself—it’s about coming home to who you’ve always been underneath the survival strategies. You don’t have to figure it out alone. This is a space where you get to show up just as you are—messy, real, and human. Neurodiverse affirming care.
If you’ve landed here, you might be carrying more than most people can see. On the outside, it may look like you’re holding it all together—but inside, it can feel like you’re barely hanging on. Maybe you overthink, people-please, or struggle to ask for what you need without guilt. Healing isn’t about fixing yourself—it’s about coming home to who you’ve always been underneath the survival strategies. You don’t have to figure it out alone. This is a space where you get to show up just as you are—messy, real, and human. Neurodiverse affirming care.
My work is centered in supporting people navigating struggles with self-worth and interpersonal relations due to life changes, relational and intergenerational trauma, immigration and acculturation stress, loss and grief, health/medical issues, work and academic stress. I aim to build an authentic and intentional space with you, where you can connect, explore, rethink, elaborate for change and nurture growth. Sessions can be focused in understanding yourself better, processing difficult moments, building awareness, improving communication, engaging authentically, questioning old patterns and finding new ways.
My work is centered in supporting people navigating struggles with self-worth and interpersonal relations due to life changes, relational and intergenerational trauma, immigration and acculturation stress, loss and grief, health/medical issues, work and academic stress. I aim to build an authentic and intentional space with you, where you can connect, explore, rethink, elaborate for change and nurture growth. Sessions can be focused in understanding yourself better, processing difficult moments, building awareness, improving communication, engaging authentically, questioning old patterns and finding new ways.
As a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, I work with individuals navigating a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, disordered eating, ADHD and other forms of neurodivergence, complex trauma, grief, and identity exploration. I create an affirming, collaborative space where clients of all ages feel seen, supported, and empowered to grow. I am especially passionate about LGBTQ+ affirming care and helping clients process the impact of systemic and institutional oppression.
As a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, I work with individuals navigating a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, disordered eating, ADHD and other forms of neurodivergence, complex trauma, grief, and identity exploration. I create an affirming, collaborative space where clients of all ages feel seen, supported, and empowered to grow. I am especially passionate about LGBTQ+ affirming care and helping clients process the impact of systemic and institutional oppression.
I use an interactive style when doing therapy, guiding and empowering clients to trust the wisdom received from the unconscious, and to use that wisdom with awareness. In this way, we facilitate the individuation process together. Individuation continually returns the individual identity--the Ego--to a healthy intimacy with the Self, the core of our being. By companioning you as you deepen your relationship to the Self and the archetypes, our therapeutic alliance can help sustain a vibrant, healthy and genuine presence in life.
I use an interactive style when doing therapy, guiding and empowering clients to trust the wisdom received from the unconscious, and to use that wisdom with awareness. In this way, we facilitate the individuation process together. Individuation continually returns the individual identity--the Ego--to a healthy intimacy with the Self, the core of our being. By companioning you as you deepen your relationship to the Self and the archetypes, our therapeutic alliance can help sustain a vibrant, healthy and genuine presence in life.
Many changes or challenges we face in life come with stress and pain, even when these changes are welcomed or planned. I believe growth, healing and peace are possible when difficulties arise, or life becomes overwhelming. In therapy, I will help you ensure transformation and healing occurs. I specialize in psychotherapy services related to perinatal complications (including loss), parental transitions, grief, bereavement & loss, depression, anxiety, trauma, adjustment to illness, relationship challenges, and life transitions. I am licensed in the states of Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey and Wisconsin.
Many changes or challenges we face in life come with stress and pain, even when these changes are welcomed or planned. I believe growth, healing and peace are possible when difficulties arise, or life becomes overwhelming. In therapy, I will help you ensure transformation and healing occurs. I specialize in psychotherapy services related to perinatal complications (including loss), parental transitions, grief, bereavement & loss, depression, anxiety, trauma, adjustment to illness, relationship challenges, and life transitions. I am licensed in the states of Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey and Wisconsin.
Online therapy and immigration evaluations to help you heal, grow, and move forward.
At Of Vineyards and Canopies Therapy Services (OVAC), we offer a nurturing space where healing and growth take root. Like a flourishing vineyard, we cultivate meaningful change; like a sturdy canopy, we provide comfort and emotional refuge. Whether therapy is new to you or a continued journey, our goal is to help you grow into your best self. Together, we’ll focus on progress, self-discovery, and empowerment so you can embrace the positive transformation you deserve.
Online therapy and immigration evaluations to help you heal, grow, and move forward.
At Of Vineyards and Canopies Therapy Services (OVAC), we offer a nurturing space where healing and growth take root. Like a flourishing vineyard, we cultivate meaningful change; like a sturdy canopy, we provide comfort and emotional refuge. Whether therapy is new to you or a continued journey, our goal is to help you grow into your best self. Together, we’ll focus on progress, self-discovery, and empowerment so you can embrace the positive transformation you deserve.
Therapy is an opportunity for you to gain insight, find hope, and make lasting change. I am committed to working collaboratively with you to develop increased awareness around your unique experiences and emotions and process what may be contributing to you feeling distressed, alone or in conflict. I believe the therapeutic relationship is key. As your therapist, I’ll create a safe space for you to explore your vulnerabilities while providing feedback to help you make meaning of your patterns and struggles. I’ll be there to support and challenge you as you strive to live your most authentic life.
Therapy is an opportunity for you to gain insight, find hope, and make lasting change. I am committed to working collaboratively with you to develop increased awareness around your unique experiences and emotions and process what may be contributing to you feeling distressed, alone or in conflict. I believe the therapeutic relationship is key. As your therapist, I’ll create a safe space for you to explore your vulnerabilities while providing feedback to help you make meaning of your patterns and struggles. I’ll be there to support and challenge you as you strive to live your most authentic life.
I have formal post-graduate training in DBT Skills Training, Mindful Awareness, Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and Archetypal Analysis.
Too often psychotherapy focuses on causality, pathology and cures. However, rather than being "sick" or 'broken", often we are just lost inside ourselves or relationships. Everyone is a unique person with their own story, experience and perspective. The goal of therapy is to achieve a deeper awareness of where we are, to discover internal meaning for our many experiences, and to experience a life worth living. While working towards that awareness, I feel that it's also important to teach healthier coping skills to assist in dealing with the anxiety and day to day stressors that bring individuals to therapy.
I have formal post-graduate training in DBT Skills Training, Mindful Awareness, Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and Archetypal Analysis.
Too often psychotherapy focuses on causality, pathology and cures. However, rather than being "sick" or 'broken", often we are just lost inside ourselves or relationships. Everyone is a unique person with their own story, experience and perspective. The goal of therapy is to achieve a deeper awareness of where we are, to discover internal meaning for our many experiences, and to experience a life worth living. While working towards that awareness, I feel that it's also important to teach healthier coping skills to assist in dealing with the anxiety and day to day stressors that bring individuals to therapy.
Hi, my name is Dr. Nikki Ruffin. My belief is that effective counseling work develops from establishing a collaborative relationship with clients. The goals of therapy are to gain self-awareness and understanding of the influence of their past on present circumstances, explore unresolved conflicts and symptoms that arise that manifest themselves in current issues going in their lives. Once this self awareness is recognized clients can examine unhealthy beliefs that lead to unhealthy behaviors and learn to change unhealthy thoughts to more realistic ones that lead to better emotional and mental health.
Hi, my name is Dr. Nikki Ruffin. My belief is that effective counseling work develops from establishing a collaborative relationship with clients. The goals of therapy are to gain self-awareness and understanding of the influence of their past on present circumstances, explore unresolved conflicts and symptoms that arise that manifest themselves in current issues going in their lives. Once this self awareness is recognized clients can examine unhealthy beliefs that lead to unhealthy behaviors and learn to change unhealthy thoughts to more realistic ones that lead to better emotional and mental health.
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker offering individual and couples therapy. I have several years of experience in treating mood disorders, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, grief, and relationship issues. My approach is tailored according to the needs and strengths of my clients, combining psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral theories. I provide an attentive, honest, and non-judgmental therapeutic environment where you can increase insight and explore desired change.
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker offering individual and couples therapy. I have several years of experience in treating mood disorders, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, grief, and relationship issues. My approach is tailored according to the needs and strengths of my clients, combining psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral theories. I provide an attentive, honest, and non-judgmental therapeutic environment where you can increase insight and explore desired change.
My work is grounded in an advanced education within a psychodynamic and psychoanalytic training.
Regardless of the therapeutic approach, the successful outcome is accomplished in a non-judgmental and highly accepting environment while creating a strong and trusting therapeutic relationship.
My work is grounded in an advanced education within a psychodynamic and psychoanalytic training.
Regardless of the therapeutic approach, the successful outcome is accomplished in a non-judgmental and highly accepting environment while creating a strong and trusting therapeutic relationship.
I became a clinician because I know what it is like to feel unheard and disconnected from my communities, and I wanted to provide a space where people could come and feel seen and heard. I believe that therapy is about healing, which comes primarily from being understood, valued, and heard as your authentic self. I am continuing to grow in my own journey and am passionate about helping others navigate through their journey in ways that feel meaningful and supportive.
I became a clinician because I know what it is like to feel unheard and disconnected from my communities, and I wanted to provide a space where people could come and feel seen and heard. I believe that therapy is about healing, which comes primarily from being understood, valued, and heard as your authentic self. I am continuing to grow in my own journey and am passionate about helping others navigate through their journey in ways that feel meaningful and supportive.
You've been the strong one for so long — the caregiver, the fixer, the one holding everyone else together while quietly falling apart inside. Maybe you're grieving a loss that changed everything. Maybe your relationship is breaking down and you don't know how to find your way back. Maybe you're a woman starting over after divorce, heartbreak, or a season that didn't go the way you planned. You're exhausted, emotionally drained, and desperately longing for peace, clarity, and someone who truly sees you. You don't need to explain yourself here. You just need to finally be heard.
You've been the strong one for so long — the caregiver, the fixer, the one holding everyone else together while quietly falling apart inside. Maybe you're grieving a loss that changed everything. Maybe your relationship is breaking down and you don't know how to find your way back. Maybe you're a woman starting over after divorce, heartbreak, or a season that didn't go the way you planned. You're exhausted, emotionally drained, and desperately longing for peace, clarity, and someone who truly sees you. You don't need to explain yourself here. You just need to finally be heard.
If you have been in therapy before and are looking for something that can assist in healing on a deeper level look no further. You may be looking for a therapy experience where you can explore your own individual life path, where you can get to and heal the root of your relationship issues, your depression, your anxiety, your childhood wounding, and/or your pain. You may be ready to understand and change the long standing patterns that are negatively affecting your life and to finally truly understand why you feel, think, and behave the way you do, heal those issues, and create the life you truly desire.
If you have been in therapy before and are looking for something that can assist in healing on a deeper level look no further. You may be looking for a therapy experience where you can explore your own individual life path, where you can get to and heal the root of your relationship issues, your depression, your anxiety, your childhood wounding, and/or your pain. You may be ready to understand and change the long standing patterns that are negatively affecting your life and to finally truly understand why you feel, think, and behave the way you do, heal those issues, and create the life you truly desire.
I am a licensed clinical therapist in Illinois with over 15 years of experience providing therapy services. My goal for when we first meet is provide a safe and comfortable space to explore what has been causing distress in your life. In our sessions we will work together to determine the root of the issue, assess what has or has not been working, and collaborate on how to move past whatever is holding you back.
I am a licensed clinical therapist in Illinois with over 15 years of experience providing therapy services. My goal for when we first meet is provide a safe and comfortable space to explore what has been causing distress in your life. In our sessions we will work together to determine the root of the issue, assess what has or has not been working, and collaborate on how to move past whatever is holding you back.
I think of the work of analysis much like the process of working with a tangled knot: rather than following a step-by-step program, in order to know how to proceed one must involve one’s hands in the work of pulling on threads and becoming intimate with their interrelations. Gradually, through the radical space of free speech that psychoanalysis affords as well as the creative play of desire that comes to surround that speech, the tangled convolutions that we have accumulated in life can be loosened and streamlined into a means of tying our world together that feels right.
I think of the work of analysis much like the process of working with a tangled knot: rather than following a step-by-step program, in order to know how to proceed one must involve one’s hands in the work of pulling on threads and becoming intimate with their interrelations. Gradually, through the radical space of free speech that psychoanalysis affords as well as the creative play of desire that comes to surround that speech, the tangled convolutions that we have accumulated in life can be loosened and streamlined into a means of tying our world together that feels right.
You may be feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, navigating the effects of past experiences, or seeking support around identity-related stress. Therapy can be a space to slow down, reflect, and better understand yourself. I work with children, adolescents, adults, and couples experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, and LGBTQ+-related concerns.
To support our work together, I draw from a blend of evidence-based, trauma-focused approaches, including psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, mindfulness, and expressive therapies such as art, narrative, and movement-based work.
You may be feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, navigating the effects of past experiences, or seeking support around identity-related stress. Therapy can be a space to slow down, reflect, and better understand yourself. I work with children, adolescents, adults, and couples experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, and LGBTQ+-related concerns.
To support our work together, I draw from a blend of evidence-based, trauma-focused approaches, including psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, mindfulness, and expressive therapies such as art, narrative, and movement-based work.
Hello,my name is Jeanette Rodriguez and I am an LCSW in Illinois. I have over 20 years of experience counseling individual, couples, and groups. I am bilingual and embrace Spanish as my native language.
Hello,my name is Jeanette Rodriguez and I am an LCSW in Illinois. I have over 20 years of experience counseling individual, couples, and groups. I am bilingual and embrace Spanish as my native language.
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