Bipolar Disorder Therapists in Oak Park, IL
I specialize in trauma, anxiety disorders, mood disorders (depression, bipolar), and life transitions.
Therapy is not "one-size-fits-all." I believe each person is the real expert on themselves, and a therapist facilitates change as a supportive partner in the process. Whether your current concerns have to do with anxiety or mood changes, due to major life changes, are trauma-related, or you just need someone to talk about your daily life, I am here to offer the space for you to grow, discover, heal, and succeed.
I specialize in trauma, anxiety disorders, mood disorders (depression, bipolar), and life transitions.
Therapy is not "one-size-fits-all." I believe each person is the real expert on themselves, and a therapist facilitates change as a supportive partner in the process. Whether your current concerns have to do with anxiety or mood changes, due to major life changes, are trauma-related, or you just need someone to talk about your daily life, I am here to offer the space for you to grow, discover, heal, and succeed.
I specialize in working with adults, couples and families navigating trauma, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and depression.
I'm Dr. Layla Kassem founder of Malachite Institute for Behavioral Health and a licensed psychologist with over 25 years of experience helping adults, couples, and families heal and grow. Many of my clients come to therapy feeling stuck after trauma, loss, or relationship challenges. You may be seeking peace, stronger connections, or a renewed sense of self. Together, we'll work to understand your story, build resilience, and create lasting change.
I specialize in working with adults, couples and families navigating trauma, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and depression.
I'm Dr. Layla Kassem founder of Malachite Institute for Behavioral Health and a licensed psychologist with over 25 years of experience helping adults, couples, and families heal and grow. Many of my clients come to therapy feeling stuck after trauma, loss, or relationship challenges. You may be seeking peace, stronger connections, or a renewed sense of self. Together, we'll work to understand your story, build resilience, and create lasting change.
My approach is practical and solution-focused, emphasizing mindfulness and skill-building to help clients navigate life’s challenges with clarity and confidence. I support individuals experiencing addiction, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, schizoaffective disorder, and men’s issues. Through structured guidance, I aim to empower clients to set healthy boundaries, strengthen emotional resilience, and create meaningful change. I am EMDR-trained and use this approach to help process trauma and other distressing experiences that may be holding you back.
My approach is practical and solution-focused, emphasizing mindfulness and skill-building to help clients navigate life’s challenges with clarity and confidence. I support individuals experiencing addiction, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, schizoaffective disorder, and men’s issues. Through structured guidance, I aim to empower clients to set healthy boundaries, strengthen emotional resilience, and create meaningful change. I am EMDR-trained and use this approach to help process trauma and other distressing experiences that may be holding you back.
My name is Chevonne Toney, LCPC, my services are completely client focused. Depending on the client's needs, my goal is to help my client address unresolved trauma that is currently affecting their daily life, provide brief symptom focused treatment, provide life coaching and assist client in setting life goals and setting them on the path to achievement. I currently accept commercial insurance as well as those with Illinois Medicaid, so everyone is able to receive quality mental health services. You can also access my services via the Grow Therapy App, Modern Health (EAP) or Headspace platforms.
My name is Chevonne Toney, LCPC, my services are completely client focused. Depending on the client's needs, my goal is to help my client address unresolved trauma that is currently affecting their daily life, provide brief symptom focused treatment, provide life coaching and assist client in setting life goals and setting them on the path to achievement. I currently accept commercial insurance as well as those with Illinois Medicaid, so everyone is able to receive quality mental health services. You can also access my services via the Grow Therapy App, Modern Health (EAP) or Headspace platforms.
I help my clients lead less burdensome, more joyful, and more emotionally connected lives. Together we can: find new tools to deal with challenging situations; uncover the reasons you are feeling down and rekindle excitement in your life; break patterns of fear and develop coping mechanisms to make success possible; work through feelings of low self-esteem and build confidence; move past the obstacles that prevent you from fostering deeper connections with others; identify the causes of obsessive thinking and help transcend the problem; and break free of destructive patterns and develop new skills to improve your life.
I help my clients lead less burdensome, more joyful, and more emotionally connected lives. Together we can: find new tools to deal with challenging situations; uncover the reasons you are feeling down and rekindle excitement in your life; break patterns of fear and develop coping mechanisms to make success possible; work through feelings of low self-esteem and build confidence; move past the obstacles that prevent you from fostering deeper connections with others; identify the causes of obsessive thinking and help transcend the problem; and break free of destructive patterns and develop new skills to improve your life.
LifeSpan Counseling & Psychological Services offers services to children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families. In therapy, I tend to take a collaborative, egalitarian approach to treatment. I am open and nonjudgmental, and I take special time to tailor treatment approaches to fit each individual therapeutic relationship. I practice from a predominately existential-phenomenological framework where individual needs, meaning-making, and pursuit of happiness are emphasized. I also incorporate elements of cognitive behavioral therapy, psychodynamic therapy, and attachment theory as needed.
LifeSpan Counseling & Psychological Services offers services to children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families. In therapy, I tend to take a collaborative, egalitarian approach to treatment. I am open and nonjudgmental, and I take special time to tailor treatment approaches to fit each individual therapeutic relationship. I practice from a predominately existential-phenomenological framework where individual needs, meaning-making, and pursuit of happiness are emphasized. I also incorporate elements of cognitive behavioral therapy, psychodynamic therapy, and attachment theory as needed.
I have worked extensively with clients struggling with depression, anxiety, bipolar, suicidality, body image issues, abuse, trauma, self-mutilation, addiction, ADHD, grief/loss, gender/sexual identity, parenting, intimacy issues, spirituality, and cultural/religious identity.
Hello! For over 30 years, I have worked with clients as a clinical psychologist providing a safe, compassionate, and non-judgmental space for adolescents, adults, and couples of all genders and sexualities. My counseling focuses on embracing tools for self-empowerment, self-worth, self-compassion, self-care, and assertiveness through reclaiming parts of oneself to feel whole. Reaching out for therapy can be intimidating and my goal is to make this experience as comfortable, safe, positive, and welcoming as possible!
I have worked extensively with clients struggling with depression, anxiety, bipolar, suicidality, body image issues, abuse, trauma, self-mutilation, addiction, ADHD, grief/loss, gender/sexual identity, parenting, intimacy issues, spirituality, and cultural/religious identity.
Hello! For over 30 years, I have worked with clients as a clinical psychologist providing a safe, compassionate, and non-judgmental space for adolescents, adults, and couples of all genders and sexualities. My counseling focuses on embracing tools for self-empowerment, self-worth, self-compassion, self-care, and assertiveness through reclaiming parts of oneself to feel whole. Reaching out for therapy can be intimidating and my goal is to make this experience as comfortable, safe, positive, and welcoming as possible!
As a neurodiverse multiracial queer individual, I have often reflected on my understanding of self and my relationship to community. I recognize that there are few spaces for individuals with marginalized identities that are safe for exploration and processing, and I work to create a non-judgmental space for people to feel seen and supported. I believe that therapy is a collaborative space for individuals to develop their own stories through exploration and healing. My clinical approach is client-focused, centers on empowerment and social justice, somatic awareness, and trauma.
As a neurodiverse multiracial queer individual, I have often reflected on my understanding of self and my relationship to community. I recognize that there are few spaces for individuals with marginalized identities that are safe for exploration and processing, and I work to create a non-judgmental space for people to feel seen and supported. I believe that therapy is a collaborative space for individuals to develop their own stories through exploration and healing. My clinical approach is client-focused, centers on empowerment and social justice, somatic awareness, and trauma.
Are you searching for a therapist who offers a nontraditional approach? Do you find yourself dealing with feelings of stagnation or unfulfillment? Whether you're navigating a significant life transition, wrestling with professional challenges, or seeking support in managing past traumas, I'm here to assist you in reclaiming the sense of control you crave in your life. My aim is to empower you to make meaningful life changes and adjustments that enhance your overall satisfaction and propel you toward achieving the goals you've set for yourself. Together, we will navigate the complexities of your experiences.
Are you searching for a therapist who offers a nontraditional approach? Do you find yourself dealing with feelings of stagnation or unfulfillment? Whether you're navigating a significant life transition, wrestling with professional challenges, or seeking support in managing past traumas, I'm here to assist you in reclaiming the sense of control you crave in your life. My aim is to empower you to make meaningful life changes and adjustments that enhance your overall satisfaction and propel you toward achieving the goals you've set for yourself. Together, we will navigate the complexities of your experiences.
We have been trained to work with a variety of issues-Depression, Anger, Anxiety (group and individual formats), Bipolar disorder, Trauma, Child and Adolescent work (males and females), Sexual Abuse, Play Therapy, Family therapy, Cultural issues (adapting to the western culture), and Gay/Lesbian family issues.
Our life's work is helping clients achieve a better sense of self and happiness...more recently we've recognized that without good mental health providers, finding this balance in life can be more difficult and stressful. As a result, we tend toward an Integrative approach and help our clients transform into the people they want to be. We see each client as an individual with many parts to their identity. Utilizing a holistic and systemic approach we help clients reintegrate the parts of themselves to function better as individuals and within their systems. Our focus tends toward a systems based approach using behavior methods.
We have been trained to work with a variety of issues-Depression, Anger, Anxiety (group and individual formats), Bipolar disorder, Trauma, Child and Adolescent work (males and females), Sexual Abuse, Play Therapy, Family therapy, Cultural issues (adapting to the western culture), and Gay/Lesbian family issues.
Our life's work is helping clients achieve a better sense of self and happiness...more recently we've recognized that without good mental health providers, finding this balance in life can be more difficult and stressful. As a result, we tend toward an Integrative approach and help our clients transform into the people they want to be. We see each client as an individual with many parts to their identity. Utilizing a holistic and systemic approach we help clients reintegrate the parts of themselves to function better as individuals and within their systems. Our focus tends toward a systems based approach using behavior methods.
Do you feel exhausted from trying strategies that were supposed to help but didn't quite land? Maybe anxiety keeps you stuck in your head even when you want to rest. Maybe you've spent years adapting, masking, or making yourself smaller to get by, and it's starting to wear on you. Maybe you just have a sense that something could feel better than it does. Most of the challenges people carry (anxiety, trauma, burnout, the weight of navigating identity in a world that wasn't built for you) make a lot more sense when you look at the context around them. The problem isn't you. It's what you've had to adapt to.
Do you feel exhausted from trying strategies that were supposed to help but didn't quite land? Maybe anxiety keeps you stuck in your head even when you want to rest. Maybe you've spent years adapting, masking, or making yourself smaller to get by, and it's starting to wear on you. Maybe you just have a sense that something could feel better than it does. Most of the challenges people carry (anxiety, trauma, burnout, the weight of navigating identity in a world that wasn't built for you) make a lot more sense when you look at the context around them. The problem isn't you. It's what you've had to adapt to.
It’s ok to not be ok. And when you’re not ok, it’s ok to reach out for help. Though life can often get us down, it is possible to rise above your circumstances, take control, and fight back. I believe that insight is a powerful tool in creating change within. As a therapist, I can help you better understand the connections between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. With this new insight, you can identify problematic ones and challenge, replace, or reframe them. The path to change starts with identifying your underlying needs and finding more effective ways to fulfill them.
It’s ok to not be ok. And when you’re not ok, it’s ok to reach out for help. Though life can often get us down, it is possible to rise above your circumstances, take control, and fight back. I believe that insight is a powerful tool in creating change within. As a therapist, I can help you better understand the connections between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. With this new insight, you can identify problematic ones and challenge, replace, or reframe them. The path to change starts with identifying your underlying needs and finding more effective ways to fulfill them.
Do you often feel like you are not “good enough”? Or do you have a “Critical Voice” in your head that berates you and everything you do/not do? The “voice” may have been helpful at one time, but has moved from being helpful to becoming a punitive task master. So, now you turn to Google or You Tube to try to solve this problem. Maybe it is time to consider getting help, and maybe the help is available through therapy. I have successfully helped individuals with these types of problems. My client base is mostly people struggling with depression, anxiety, relationships, adult ADHD and problems related to alcohol and drug use.
Do you often feel like you are not “good enough”? Or do you have a “Critical Voice” in your head that berates you and everything you do/not do? The “voice” may have been helpful at one time, but has moved from being helpful to becoming a punitive task master. So, now you turn to Google or You Tube to try to solve this problem. Maybe it is time to consider getting help, and maybe the help is available through therapy. I have successfully helped individuals with these types of problems. My client base is mostly people struggling with depression, anxiety, relationships, adult ADHD and problems related to alcohol and drug use.
I'm a seasoned psychotherapist with more than 30 years' experience. I offer a safe and non-judgmental space in which you can freely explore whatever has felt dissatisfying, obsolete, self-defeating or even toxic in your life. Maybe you’re seeking to improve the way you've responded to transitions or traumas, whether recently or many years ago. Maybe you want to figure out how to “jettison” habits, relationships or lifestyles that no longer work for you. Or maybe you want to break free from repeating cycles or patterns that haven’t served you successfully in the past.
I'm a seasoned psychotherapist with more than 30 years' experience. I offer a safe and non-judgmental space in which you can freely explore whatever has felt dissatisfying, obsolete, self-defeating or even toxic in your life. Maybe you’re seeking to improve the way you've responded to transitions or traumas, whether recently or many years ago. Maybe you want to figure out how to “jettison” habits, relationships or lifestyles that no longer work for you. Or maybe you want to break free from repeating cycles or patterns that haven’t served you successfully in the past.
Brendan has focused on work with individuals experiencing grief. His approach emphasizes active collaboration with clients, empowering them to become experts in their own experiences. His compassionate perspective and evidence-based strategies help foster growth, resilience, and healing. In addition to his clinical focus, Brendan values building strong therapeutic relationships and creating an emotionally safe environment for LGBTQ+ clients, men, and women. His goal is to provide culturally competent care and ensure all clients feel supported and understood.Brendan works with individuals across the lifespan and adapts his approach
Brendan has focused on work with individuals experiencing grief. His approach emphasizes active collaboration with clients, empowering them to become experts in their own experiences. His compassionate perspective and evidence-based strategies help foster growth, resilience, and healing. In addition to his clinical focus, Brendan values building strong therapeutic relationships and creating an emotionally safe environment for LGBTQ+ clients, men, and women. His goal is to provide culturally competent care and ensure all clients feel supported and understood.Brendan works with individuals across the lifespan and adapts his approach
Lorena Bravo-Molina, LSW, helps individuals and families navigate emotional distress, life transitions, and mental health challenges with compassionate, evidence-based care. Through individual therapy at LifeStance Health, she supports children, adolescents, teens, adults, and seniors across Illinois, creating a safe and collaborative space to build coping skills, strengthen resilience, and improve daily functioning. She brings focused expertise in treating ADHD, anxiety, and depression, tailoring care to each person’s goals and developmental stage.Lorena Bravo-Molina, LSW, helps individuals and families navigate emotional distress,
Lorena Bravo-Molina, LSW, helps individuals and families navigate emotional distress, life transitions, and mental health challenges with compassionate, evidence-based care. Through individual therapy at LifeStance Health, she supports children, adolescents, teens, adults, and seniors across Illinois, creating a safe and collaborative space to build coping skills, strengthen resilience, and improve daily functioning. She brings focused expertise in treating ADHD, anxiety, and depression, tailoring care to each person’s goals and developmental stage.Lorena Bravo-Molina, LSW, helps individuals and families navigate emotional distress,
Clients sometimes feel stuck and overwhelmed by the demands of life and they might struggle with anxiety, depression, or trauma, or face unique cultural or systemic stressors that have compounded over time. They are seeking not just relief, but a path toward reclaiming their balance and joy. Clients often seek a holistic approach that honors both their psychological and biological needs. Whether their goal is to achieve emotional stability, improve relationships, or simply find the energy to pursue their passions, they want to work with someone who understands the nuances of their experiences and can offer empathy and expertise.
Clients sometimes feel stuck and overwhelmed by the demands of life and they might struggle with anxiety, depression, or trauma, or face unique cultural or systemic stressors that have compounded over time. They are seeking not just relief, but a path toward reclaiming their balance and joy. Clients often seek a holistic approach that honors both their psychological and biological needs. Whether their goal is to achieve emotional stability, improve relationships, or simply find the energy to pursue their passions, they want to work with someone who understands the nuances of their experiences and can offer empathy and expertise.
Jacquelyn is a Marriage and Family Therapist with specialized training in working systemically with individuals, couples, and families. She experience in both community mental health and partial hospitalization settings, treating issues of anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and (sexual) trauma. She is adamant about addressing matters surrounding high conflict relationships, communication, first and second-generation challenges, grief and loss and complex family dynamics.
Jacquelyn is a Marriage and Family Therapist with specialized training in working systemically with individuals, couples, and families. She experience in both community mental health and partial hospitalization settings, treating issues of anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and (sexual) trauma. She is adamant about addressing matters surrounding high conflict relationships, communication, first and second-generation challenges, grief and loss and complex family dynamics.
My therapeutic style provides an Integrative Approach in supporting clients journeying with symptoms of anxiety, mood disturbances (depression, bipolar disorder), trauma, racial trauma, gender identity, identity development and life transitions.
Hello lovely people! I'm excited to be a fellow traveler on this journey with you as you shift identification from the false conditioned self and integrate and align with your True Self! This can look like and feel like getting free from the pain and wounds that bind you, keep you stuck in emotional reactivity, steal your joy and distort your perspective. I believe every client has everything they need inside of themselves. Sometimes we just need a little nudge, additional support in a non-judgmental space and complete and total acceptance. At the end of the day, we all want to know that we matter and that we are seen and heard.
My therapeutic style provides an Integrative Approach in supporting clients journeying with symptoms of anxiety, mood disturbances (depression, bipolar disorder), trauma, racial trauma, gender identity, identity development and life transitions.
Hello lovely people! I'm excited to be a fellow traveler on this journey with you as you shift identification from the false conditioned self and integrate and align with your True Self! This can look like and feel like getting free from the pain and wounds that bind you, keep you stuck in emotional reactivity, steal your joy and distort your perspective. I believe every client has everything they need inside of themselves. Sometimes we just need a little nudge, additional support in a non-judgmental space and complete and total acceptance. At the end of the day, we all want to know that we matter and that we are seen and heard.
I am a Licensed Clinical Psychologist offering therapy services to adults and adolescents in Oak Park, IL. I specialize in the treatment of eating disorders, complex trauma, depression, anxiety, and relationship issues. In my treatment of complex issues, I provide both individual and family therapy and value collaborating with other healthcare providers for multidisciplinary care. I work from a mindfulness-based and trauma-informed lens, utilizing body-based, symptom-focused interventions and exploring interpersonal relationships as methods to encourage change.
I am a Licensed Clinical Psychologist offering therapy services to adults and adolescents in Oak Park, IL. I specialize in the treatment of eating disorders, complex trauma, depression, anxiety, and relationship issues. In my treatment of complex issues, I provide both individual and family therapy and value collaborating with other healthcare providers for multidisciplinary care. I work from a mindfulness-based and trauma-informed lens, utilizing body-based, symptom-focused interventions and exploring interpersonal relationships as methods to encourage change.
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Bipolar Disorder Therapists
What is the most successful approach to treating bipolar disorder?
Living with bipolar disorder can be challenging, and a number of therapies have been found effective in providing support to patients as they gain the skills to understand and manage the disorder. Family-focused therapy is often helpful for children and teens (the majority of cases develop before age 19); it aims to minimize mood cycling by improving family communication and reducing conflict. It also helps young people navigate the developmental challenges the disorder can create. Cognitive and behavioral therapy (CBT) and variants such as Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)help patients manage the thoughts and feelings that influence bipolar mood swings as well as develop specific behavioral strategies to counteract them.
What happens in therapy for bipolar disorder?
Because the patterns of mood switching and its triggers differ for each person and can change over time, mood tracking or monitoring becomes a basic way patients learn about the nature of their condition. One of the most common features of therapy is finding a workable method of mood monitoring, in which patients track their daily activities and rate their moods, then use the findings to adjust routines accordingly. Patients learn ways of handling the many stresses that arise in life so that they do not trigger mood swings.
What kinds of problems does therapy help with?
Like many other mental health disorders, BPD is heavily influenced by stress; therapy provides skills for coping with stressors of all kinds. Therapy is extremely important for helping individuals identify the situations that may trigger mood switching, so that mood swings can be prevented. Therapy may especially target recognition of the early stages of mood change so that they can be managed. In addition, therapy helps patients deal with the significant amount of turbulence the disorder can create in relationships and in work life.
What is the goal of therapy for bipolar disorder?
Therapy helps patients set up their lives to maintain stability so that their mood isn’t constantly threatened by daily events. Perhaps the first task of therapy is to educate people about the nature of the disorder. At the same time, a primary goal of therapy is to enhance adherence to drug treatment. Extended periods of mood stability can prompt patients to discontinue medication, triggering relapse, while the early phases of manic episodes can feel so energizing that patients stop medication, ushering in full-blown mania and the altered self-perception that can lead to destructive behaviors. Another major goal of therapy is to understand one’s mood patterns so as to minimize both the frequency and intensity of mood cycling.