Work collaboratively to ensure that within the safety of our therapeutic relationship, you will increase your insight and understanding, overcome obstacles and life challenges, and realize your worth and potential.
Work collaboratively to ensure that within the safety of our therapeutic relationship, you will increase your insight and understanding, overcome obstacles and life challenges, and realize your worth and potential.
I practice using evidence-based practices such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Reality Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Solution-focused Therapy, and insight-oriented and client-centered therapies.
Unpack, critique, and become more resilient to the systemic forces that have led us to feel inadequate, make sense of relational patterns, develop more self compassion, strengthen the mind/body connection, and use art as a means of processing.
Unpack, critique, and become more resilient to the systemic forces that have led us to feel inadequate, make sense of relational patterns, develop more self compassion, strengthen the mind/body connection, and use art as a means of processing.
More than anything, my highest goal as a therapist is to build a strong rapport with each client. From this trusting relationship, I offer unconditional warmth and thoughtful clinical perspectives rooted in ACT, art therapy, and trauma-informed care.
Build coping skills, build social skills, work through previous models and tools that were used and did not work for the client, and allow you to determine what type of support you want and need to better yourself during our time.
Build coping skills, build social skills, work through previous models and tools that were used and did not work for the client, and allow you to determine what type of support you want and need to better yourself during our time.
I strive to make the conversations open and client-led, while working to utilize my therapeutic background to personalize tools and skills. The therapy experience is meant to provide a comforting and safe space to talk and collaborate.
As someone who grew up in unstable socio-political circumstances and as an immigrant, I have reinvented myself many times, and I can help you do the same. I am a fierce fighter for social justice and a supporter of oppressed people.
As someone who grew up in unstable socio-political circumstances and as an immigrant, I have reinvented myself many times, and I can help you do the same. I am a fierce fighter for social justice and a supporter of oppressed people.
I am a bilingual (English/Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian) therapist. I offer culturally informed therapy and acknowledge individual, intergenerational, historical, racial, and social trauma. These traumas are often at the root of modern human issues.
Together, we'll explore thoughts & feelings, cultivate self-awareness, develop healthy coping strategies, strengthen communication & relationships, promote healing & growth. Safe, non-judgmental space to empower your journey towards mental well-being
Together, we'll explore thoughts & feelings, cultivate self-awareness, develop healthy coping strategies, strengthen communication & relationships, promote healing & growth. Safe, non-judgmental space to empower your journey towards mental well-being
My experience in the Chicago-land area included work in Non-Profits, Hospitals, & Wilderness Programs before establishing WillisCC. I specialized with high risk adolescents addressing self-injury, gang involvement and drug use.