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.
Co-create therapy, focused on strengths and survival within these systems, and assisting you to recognize your own resiliency.
Co-create therapy, focused on strengths and survival within these systems, and assisting you to recognize your own resiliency.
I approach therapy through a critical lens to identify all factors impacting our mental health, including the systems under which we are operating, and the detrimental impacts these can have based on multiple identities.
Collaboratively determine goals and how we will approach them. Begin by understanding who you are and how you've become who you are and then focus on how to be who you want to be in your life today.
Collaboratively determine goals and how we will approach them. Begin by understanding who you are and how you've become who you are and then focus on how to be who you want to be in your life today.
I work primarily from psychodynamic and family systems perspectives. I believe that our earlier experiences shape us but don't define us. Making sense of these experiences allows us to make changes in the here and now.
look inward at your thoughts, feelings, identities, and values, while also exploring environmental factors, family of origin, and relational patterns to strengthen both your sense of self and your connections with others.
look inward at your thoughts, feelings, identities, and values, while also exploring environmental factors, family of origin, and relational patterns to strengthen both your sense of self and your connections with others.
I help my clients develop real strategies to cope with stress and mental health symptoms, while also going deeper to get to the root of the problem and create longterm change. I am guided by relational, psychodynamic, and depth-oriented approaches.
use a variety treatment approaches involving mindfulness, acceptance, compassion, body work and nutrition which can all be quite validating, liberating, and therapeutic because they address the whole person, not just the mind.
use a variety treatment approaches involving mindfulness, acceptance, compassion, body work and nutrition which can all be quite validating, liberating, and therapeutic because they address the whole person, not just the mind.
Outside of EMDR therapy I typically use in trauma treatment with my clients, my work is grounded in evidence-based practices of Western psychology, while being heavily influenced by practices that are more characteristic of Eastern philosophies.