Divorce Therapists in Illinois

My ideal client is anyone that is seeking change and looking to create more balance in their life. My goal is to create a normalcy in the process of finding support during times when we need clarity. Whether or not there is an identified focus, I will walk individuals through gaining awareness and increasing skills to enhance life functioning through a client centered and empowerment focus. My experience includes working with individuals experiencing depression, anxiety, relationship issues, low self esteem, difficult life transitions, trauma (including working with women in a domestic violence shelter.

My approach derives from psychodynamic, family systems, relational and cognitive schools of psychotherapy. I want to help my clients achieve greater clarity about their circumstances, choices, relationships, and ultimately, themselves. I am highly engaged and attuned, warm, enthusiastic and personable. I find that when clients feel seen, deeply understood, and accepted, their internal compasses become more finely tuned, enabling them to make life choices that better align with their values and personal nature. These changes become vehicles for developing new ways of thinking, feeling, and relating to others.

The creation of a genuine relationship based on empathy, presence and acceptance is at the center of my approach. As a therapist, mediator and educator, I have experience working with a variety of populations: children, adolescents, individuals, couples, and families. I have extensive experience working with parents and children experiencing separation and divorce. Additionally, I teach workshops and classes in the areas of conflict transformation, communication skills, and divorce. In the collaborative law process, I serve as a child specialist and coach.

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with over 15 years of experience working with multiple people in the therapy room dealing with relationship issues. This training prepared me to ensure that everyone has an active part of the therapeutic process. I believe that therapy is a collaborative approach where a trusting therapeutic relationship is established and used to identify existing strengths and workable solutions. I also believe that my role is to assist individuals, couples or families in developing skills that address there presenting concerns and continue to be useful beyond the end of therapy.

Entering therapy is ideally a rewarding endeavor! I completed my Master's degree in Social Work in 1995. I have worked in health care & private practice. I have a certification in perinatal mental health through Postpartum Support International (PSI). I have received training in pregnancy and infant loss with Resolve Through Sharing (RTS). I enjoy working with clients who are adapting to perinatal mental health concerns, parenting, grief and loss, life transitions, divorce and infidelity recovery. I help others attain resolution utilizing cognitive behavioral technique, solution-focused therapy and family systems therapy.

Dr. Laura Bokar is the CEO/President of Fox Valley Institute for Growth and Wellness and has been an individual, marital/couple and family therapist for almost three decades. Her approach is tailored to the client's need. She is an open, non-threatening therapist with a sense of humor. Dr. Laura is a LMFT, LCPC and an Approved Clinical Supervisor. She is trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). She is also certified in Rapid Resolution Therapy (RRT), Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Critical Incident Response, Prepare/Enrich Pre-Marital Assessment, Primary Care Behavioral Health, and DBT.

Are you struggling in your personal life or relationships? Counseling is the first step to becoming healthy and fulfilled. I have 30+ years of experience walking alongside people of all ages, including couples and families, to help them on their journey of personal growth. We will work cooperatively together to reach your goals through proven therapeutic interventions, including stress management, anger management, communication skills, emotion regulation, relaxation techniques, cognitive/behavioral therapy, & EMDR. Let's get started working toward your goals.

I am passionate about helping individuals and their families navigate various life transitions such as marriage, parenthood, and divorce. Through evidence-based therapeutic approaches, empathetic guidance, and collaboration, I empower my clients to navigate life's challenges with resilience and insight. My theoretical orientations are interactive approaches with CBT and DBT, along with family systems and culturally-sensitive components. My goal is to foster self-awareness, nurture healthy relationships, and cultivate emotional balance in every aspect of a clients' lives.I also supervise students and interns in child focused therapy.

We all find ourselves at times in our life that we require nurturance to help us through life's changes. Loss in our lives requires care and guidance by a professional. Loss may be defined in various ways, it may be death, divorce, depression, addictions, infidelity, anxiety, infertility just to name a few. I work to specifically assist individuals, couples, families and groups to alleviate emotional disorders, to understand conscious and unconscious motivation, to resolve emotional, relationship and attitudinal conflicts and to help modify behaviors that interfere with effective emotional, social adaptive, and intellectual functioning.

Are you going through a major change in your life? Divorce, remarriage, blending a family, new job, new baby? Have you hit a road block in your career? Is anxiety keeping you from living an enriching lifestyle? Do you have unresolved trauma? Do you have a difficult to manage child? I can help you with these sudden roadblocks. During these transitional phases of life, we need a support system to help us gain strength, resilience and maintain a healthy living. I use EMDR, Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) in working with adult clients and play therapy with my child clients. I act as an advocate, sounding board and gentle challenger.

I am a supportive and empathic therapist who cares deeply about individuals feeling better. Life can be extremely challenging and stressful. My goal is to offer guidance to help you or a family member through these difficult times with loving, nurturing care and support. I am a seasoned clinical social worker with more than forty years of experience. I worked at Stevenson High School as the Social Work Coordinator for eighteen years and recently as the Director for Clinical Services at a therapeutic day school.

Life presents challenges and different seasons of life. Feelings exist because of life situations we have gone through. Our feelings are not a problem, but what we do with the feelings and how we cope with them can be. Having someone experienced to help you through those seasons and situations can be invaluable. I have many years of experience in providing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Grief Counseling, Family/Relationship Conflict, Couples Counseling. Trauma Recovery, EMDR, and Christian Counseling. I am certified as a Telemental provider. I believe that anyone who is willing can improve their life with the right tools.

Even in the best of times relationships are challenging. Counseling can go down many paths to help make challenges more manageable. Here are four main paths we can explore: Starting fresh with new skills and approaches to being a couple. Making amends and forgiveness. Exploring your family culture and what you bring into your relationship. Restructuring, uncoupling, separation, or compassionate divorce. Let's discuss the main options and together agree upon the focus of our work moving forward. I take an integrated approach to working with couples which has been informed by many master clinicians.

If you are having difficulties in relationships, feeling overwhelmed with the stress of living, experiencing difficulties in your job, or are looking to make some changes in yourself, I offer a supportive environment and listening ear to help you figure out how to approach your problems in a new way. Frequently we know we want to do it differently but don't know how. I want to help you move forward in life and reconnect you to your own capabilities. Relationships are important. I am always here for you. Website: www.evolveconsciouscounseling.com

Christine Romesburg, MSW, MBA, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker for over ten years. She is currently working on her doctoral dissertation focusing on PTSD and psychosis from Walden University in epidemiology and public health.Christine works to assist her patients in recognizing their overall thought processes and changing their negative perceptions and beliefs into more positive, motivating insights which will generate the change the patient desires.

With 15 years of experience in holistic and integrative medicine, I bring a deeper understanding and success in providing effective therapy for long-term illnesses, women’s health, perinatal concerns and postpartum depression. I am equally passionate about working with life transitions, including relationship uncertainty, break-up and divorce recovery, and the challenges of dating. Her personal experience of moving to the U.S has led to a greater understanding of issues pertaining to immigration, life transitions, identity concerns, motivation, and self-esteem.

Ewa Nevler is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 18 years of clinical experience in family services agencies. Ewa has significant experience and training working with children, adolescents, adults as well as geriatric population. Ewa provides integrative services to offer guidance related to issues of parenting and co-parenting, anxiety and depression, grief and loss, marriage and relationship concerns, separation and divorce, life transitions, as well as work and school related issues.

We believe in "real solutions" not "mm-hmm", head nodding therapy. We are not your friends or your mother. We are professional, non-judgmental listeners. We provide feedback to the issues that you may be struggling with. We will help guide you through evidence based practice to reach your TRUE feelings...to find answers & concrete solutions. We want you to be at peace, no matter what the situation. We believe that behavioral therapy is just like physical therapy. When you work an area that has been injured, at first you may hurt, but then you get stronger. You recover, you heal.

A time of stress is one of the most common reasons to seek therapy. People also often enter counseling after experiencing a loss or a looming loss, whether it concerns a health crisis, relationship, divorce, job, the death of a loved one, or a major disappointment. My goal is to develop a warm and trusting working relationship with every client so that they have the opportunity to explore their thinking and feelings in a setting that is safe and secure. My work is solution-focused and evidenced-based. Ultimately, the goal of any therapy is life enhancement.