Hi, I’m Nick. I’m a licensed social worker in Illinois, and my passion is creating a safe, supportive, and nonjudgmental space where you can bring your whole self to therapy. I believe that healing happens when we feel truly seen, heard, and understood—not only for our struggles, but also for our strengths and potential. Whether you’re navigating anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, or life transitions, I’m here to provide compassionate support and guidance every step of the way.

I honor the full complexity of each person—mind, body, culture, and lived experience—by fostering a therapeutic environment that embraces every part of who you are. My approach is evidence-based and flexible, integrating Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT), Social Rhythm Therapy (SRT), and Person-Centered Therapy. By tailoring these methods to your unique needs and goals, I help you gain insight, develop effective coping strategies, and build resilience for lasting growth.

When you work with me, you can expect compassion, curiosity, and collaboration. My goal isn’t to provide quick fixes, but to walk alongside you as you explore your story, process your experiences, and discover meaningful change. I strive to create a safe, inclusive space where you feel comfortable expressing yourself openly, knowing that every part of your journey is valued and respected.

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Therapy is an invitation to pause, look inward, and explore the parts of yourself that are asking to be seen. I work with teens, adults, and elders navigating identity exploration, relationship challenges, sexuality, life transitions, and disordered eating. My goal is to offer a supportive, affirming space where you feel truly seen and understood. Together, we’ll explore your experiences, uncover your strengths, and move toward meaningful, lasting change.

Therapy is an invitation to pause, look inward, and explore the parts of yourself that are asking to be seen. I work with teens, adults, and elders navigating identity exploration, relationship challenges, sexuality, life transitions, and disordered eating. My goal is to offer a supportive, affirming space where you feel truly seen and understood. Together, we’ll explore your experiences, uncover your strengths, and move toward meaningful, lasting change.

I value a trauma-informed approach combined with CBT to support clients in their healing and growth. I’m Internal Family Systems informed and Gottman Method Level 1 certified, integrating these modalities to work effectively with both individuals and couples. When helpful, I incorporate nature-based practices to foster grounding, connection, and resilience. Together, we can create a space where you feel supported, understood, and empowered to move toward the life that feels authentic to you. When you’re ready, I invite you to reach out.

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Shannon is a Licensed Professional Counselor who is committed to creating a warm environment and safe relationship where you can explore yourself and your past experiences. Shannon prioritizes learning about you as a unique individual and caters her approach to suit your specific needs and goals. Together you will explore your values, identity, attachment style, culture, and relationship history. This insight will be used to address current thought/behavior patterns to help you get un-stuck and live the life you desire.

Shannon excels with clients working through questions of identity, professional uncertainty, relationship struggles, ADHD (particularly in women), anxiety, trauma, and self-doubt. She also has an affinity for working with individuals feeling pressured by society’s expectations of femininity.

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Emma is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Illinois who is dedicated to fostering personal growth and healing through a compassionate and holistic approach. She believes that each individual has the inherent ability to overcome difficulties and transform with the right support and guidance. Emma strives to create a nurturing, nonjudgmental environment where clients feel safe to explore their inner experiences and cultivate healthier relationships.

While working with clients, Emma utilizes Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Attachment Theory, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) part’s work. This is what these theories may look like in a therapy setting:

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a therapeutic approach that helps individuals process traumatic experiences using bilateral stimulation, such as eye movements, to facilitate the brain’s natural healing process. The bilateral stimulation creates the same healing movements that occur during REM sleep, which allows an individual to deeply process trauma and reduce the emotional distress associated with the memories. This enables clients to integrate these memories in a more adaptive way and adopt a positive cognition that is aligned with their goals.

Attachment Theory explores how early relationships with caregivers shape an individual’s emotional and relational development throughout life. By understanding our earliest attachments, we can build security within ourselves in therapy. This may appear outwardly as having high self-esteem, firm boundaries, ability to regulate emotions, and healthy interpersonal connections.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) Parts Work is a therapeutic approach that views the mind as composed of various “parts,” each with its own role, perspective, and function. The parts stem from the mind’s desire to keep the individual safe; however, as we grow, some functions no longer serve us. By understanding and harmonizing these parts, individuals can heal internal conflicts and achieve greater emotional balance and self-awareness.

Emma graduated from Regis University in 2023 with a Master of Arts in Counseling. She also received a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism with a minor in Psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2018.

Emma has experience working with adolescents and adults through her work in a school counseling setting and private practice. She has addressed a range of issues, including anxiety, depression, generational trauma, LGBTQ+ issues, and caregiver burnout. She has also worked with groups, individuals, couples, and families.

When not in the therapist’s chair, Emma loves to dance and do yoga. She also enjoys listening to live music wherever she can find it and crate-digging at the local vinyl stores. She has two lovely cats who find every chance to cuddle.

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Esther approaches therapy as a fellow collaborator who values connectedness as a healing tool to oneself, others, and the community. Building client relationships is central to her work, involving mutual trust, empathy, compassionate accountability, and at times, sharing a laugh. She honors the many layers of our identities and experiences through an intersectional lens that actively acknowledges cultural context and systemic factors.

Esther draws from existential, narrative, and ACT concepts within a relational-cultural and trauma-informed framework. She also uses mind-body-spirit and somatic methods to help clients tune into messages from their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies. She understands that honest introspection and self-compassion is necessary for healing, and communing with ourselves may give voices to parts that have long sat unheard and unseen. Additionally, Esther incorporates dream work and projective tools (symbols, imagery, cards) to assist self-reflection upon request. Although these approaches inform her practice, she centers ongoing collaboration to discover what works best for the client. Esther works with a broad range of experiences, including identity exploration, existential concerns, ancestral trauma and healing, and life transitions. She also enjoys supporting explorations of culture, sexuality, spirituality, kink, and alt and expansive structures, spaces, and identities.

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Hello there! I am a Licensed Professional Counselor in Illinois. I believe we all have a story to tell that is rooted in different lived experiences. These stories that we embed into our identities are unique with very distinct needs. Sharing and having your story heard and empathized with can help provide relief and release while creating the space to help understand yourself more effectively. I strive to provide a space that encourages safety and curiosity as well as guides you at your own pace and your own comfort level. The opportunity to be part of your journey would be an honor to me.

APPROACH

My view of therapy is holistic in that I center your values and culture as we work together to break labels and judgments that might prevent you from reaching your best self. I draw from multicultural and person-centered approaches and seek to be cognizant of sociopolitical contexts impacting life. I work to embrace and acknowledge issues related to gender, sexuality, financial circumstances, race, ethnicity, culture, spirituality, intergenerational trauma and so much more. In my work with you, I pay attention to your needs and incorporate mindfulness, interpersonal techniques, self-awareness, stress, and mood management skills. Below are some techniques I incorporate into our sessions:

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Alexis is Licensed Professional Counselor who graduated in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Concordia University in Illinois. Alexis is passionate about helping individuals feel seen, understood and validated as they navigate through their healing journey. She also is fluent in Spanish.

Alexis’s approach to therapy begins with a holistic lens, uncovering and understanding each client’s unique qualities and identities. This allows her to gain a better understanding of the client and provide them with a uniquely tailored therapeutic experience. Person-centered therapy (PCT) is a client-centered approach where the therapist strives to understand the client’s experience from their perspective. It is based on the belief that each person has the innate ability to change and grow, despite life experiences or struggles.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a type of mindful psychotherapy that helps you stay focused on the present moment and accept thoughts and feelings without judgment. It aims to help you move forward through difficult emotions so you can put your energy into healing instead of dwelling on the negative.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based approach that challenges negative thoughts and distortions in thinking. By identifying these patterns, Emily works with clients to change them, improving feelings and behaviors.

Alexis has experience working with a multicultural population of adults, adolescents, children, the elderly, families, and couples. She has worked primarily with patients in intensive inpatient and outpatient behavioral health programs, allowing her to confidently identify safety concerns and at-risk patients. She has gained crisis stabilization and de-escalation skills working with emotionally dysregulated clients. Alexis has also worked with culturally diverse families and couples to navigate relationship issues during sessions and provided one-on-one therapy.

Alexis has provided therapeutic treatment for concerns such as anxiety, trauma, depression, and personality disorders. She has also worked with parent support, guidance, generational trauma, cultural trauma, and relationship issues, including setting and maintaining boundaries and establishing healthy forms of communication.

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Brian believes therapy is a collaborative, team-based process with the counselor and, you, the client. You are the main character in your life story. Things happen in life that challenge us and there is a true power for being able to process these emotions and experiences with a mental health professional to help you gain new skills and perspectives. Having a space to tackle these difficult life situations can be a life changing experience.

Brian’s first goal when beginning therapy is to create a genuine, warm, honest, open, non-judgemental space where you feel comfortable, validated, seen, and heard. From there, Brian’s purpose is to help you navigate this difficult time in your life and learn more about who you are and where you want to go. He strives to support you through this journey, but ultimately you are writing (or re-writing) your story.

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Hi! I am a Licensed Professional Counselor in Illinois. I find myself working with many clients in adulthood who are seeking to create a balanced life amidst all the changes happening around them, from career choices to their shifting self-image and relationships. During their journey of self-discovery, my client’s often reach out to me for guidance in navigating negative self-image and the common issues that stem from it like: difficulty setting boundaries, negative self-talk, and difficulty finding direction and purpose in life. I specialize in working with anxiety, panic, depression, relationship issues, and trauma. I provide both warmth and curiosity into my sessions working with clients in a collaborative and direct way. I welcome you into a safe space where you can explore your inner world, self-exploration, feel supported and challenged.

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Lakeitta has experience and excels in working with individuals and couples who have experienced a variety of challenges such as depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship issues, difficult life transitions, and grief. Lakeitta’s educational and professional training has allowed her to work with people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. She is well-informed in competencies from multicultural, social justice, and relational frameworks. Lakeitta’s self-awareness and passion for working with clients is seen by cultivating a space of comfort and warmth. She provides therapy through a client-centered approach and incorporates CBT, ACT, DBT, mindfulness, and grounding techniques to assist in providing positive coping and increased self-awareness.

Lakeitta provides safety, warmth, and authenticity in the therapeutic space. She respects the lived experiences of clients while assisting them with seeing areas of growth and change. Her approach in therapy is non-judgemental, collaborative, and encouraging. She recognizes and affirms intersectionality, LGBTQIA+, multiculturalism, racial identity, sexual identity, and gender identity. Lakeitta values working with black and brown communities in addition to populations from diverse backgrounds. Her goal as your therapist is to help you identify and reach your goals, process your thoughts and feelings, and invite you to challenge yourself.

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Hello and thank you for choosing to begin therapy! Whether you have worked with a therapist in the past or if this is your first time, you have decided to make yourself a priority and that’s amazing! I am a Licensed Professional Counselor in Illinois and would love to provide you with the support you need. I believe that feeling both seen and heard is one of the most important aspects of the healing process. Your story is yours alone to tell, and we all deserve to feel safe to share openly with someone and without judgment. It is my passion to understand the inner workings of each individual and the experiences they’ve had that make them who they are!

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Hello! I am a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. I am the founder (and therapist) of Ace Counseling Group.

Please note: I am not currently accepting new clients, however, I am available for 15 minute free consultations in order to connect you to a therapist that would be a good fit!

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If you’re ready to move beyond quick fixes, I am here to help. My goal is to help you gain insight into deeper core issues and work towards inner healing. Together, we will discover parts of yourself that you may have been ignoring, unsure how to help, or possibly even dislike. By connecting with our inner parts, we are able to resolve and reduce inner conflict and heal emotional wounds.

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During my work across the lifespan, I have learned that it is important to bring your whole self to the therapeutic space, including your culture and life experience. Within your therapy experience, I try to tailor my therapeutic approach to your needs, believing that we all come with a story to share, learn and grow from.

I have experience in working with children, teens, adults and families across all walks of life. My previous experience has allowed me to work in an agency for those with Autism, a child welfare agency and hospitals. My treatment experience includes trauma, grief/loss, depression, anxiety, and couples/family therapy. I also have experience with evidenced-based treatment modalities such as: play therapy, child parent psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and family systems therapy.

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