Empower you as you draw upon strengths, gain greater insight and understanding, and achieve lasting change.
Empower you as you draw upon strengths, gain greater insight and understanding, and achieve lasting change.
I take a collaborative approach to provide highly individualized, effective care. I use evidence-based or "gold standard" treatments such as CBT and ACT and support you as you achieve your goals, find more balance, and thrive in authenticity.
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.
You'll learn to appreciate how emotions are adaptive and what matters most is how we respond to them and how you can break free from struggles to control them. I will support you as well as gently challenge you to grow and reach your goals.
You'll learn to appreciate how emotions are adaptive and what matters most is how we respond to them and how you can break free from struggles to control them. I will support you as well as gently challenge you to grow and reach your goals.
I use evidence-based cognitive-behavioral, acceptance oriented, disability affirmative, and self compassionate approaches, such as mindfulness, behavioral activation, exposure, and cognitive restructuring.
Work to identify strategies and techniques that can begin to offer some relief. We will also begin to alter problematic/less functional narratives that negatively impact your life. Self-compassion is a skill that I work on with almost every client.
Work to identify strategies and techniques that can begin to offer some relief. We will also begin to alter problematic/less functional narratives that negatively impact your life. Self-compassion is a skill that I work on with almost every client.
It is my responsibility to pay attention to the big picture- noting common themes that come up. Often concerns that we have present differently across different domains (work, home, etc.) but the emotional underpinnings and impact can be similar.
Use our conversations to explore how your brain works and identify supportive solutions for you. We will focus on how thoughts impact feelings and create behavioral strategies that improve your quality of life and increase acceptance of yourself.
Use our conversations to explore how your brain works and identify supportive solutions for you. We will focus on how thoughts impact feelings and create behavioral strategies that improve your quality of life and increase acceptance of yourself.
I am committed to helping people find their path and take action to move forward in their lives. Therapy is a place where we can learn how to get “unstuck” and counter the worries that create doubt and uncertainty in ourselves.