Therapy Services in Chicago and Across Illinois

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Eating Disorders

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College & Grad Students

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Anxiety

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Trauma & PTSD

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Tinnitus

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Professionals

— Specialty Area

Therapy for Eating Disorders

The calculation before every meal. The rules that reset. The gap between how you move through the world and what's happening privately. You've been managing this for a long time, quietly, carefully, in ways most people around you can't see. You're tired of how much space it takes up.

Eating disorders are not really about food. They're about what food has come to represent. Treatment works on both levels: the patterns and behaviors, and what's underneath them. I use CBT therapy as my primary framework since it's one of the most studied approaches for eating disorders, and I draw in elements of other therapies to address symptoms as they show up. Every plan I build is individualized to the person in front of me. I have particular experience with long-standing cases, and when it helps, I coordinate with your doctor, dietitian, or care team so you're not holding all the pieces alone. If you've been through treatment before without lasting results, you're in the right place.

Ideal for: Adults living with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, disordered eating patterns, or a complicated relationship with food and body image, including long-standing cases.

What many clients notice over time:

• Meals that don't require running commentary or calculation
• Mental space that opens up as food stops being a full-time preoccupation
• A quieter, steadier relationship with themselves
  

— Student Mental Health

Therapy for College and Graduate Students

You got here, and it was supposed to feel like freedom. Some days it does. Most days there's a pressure that doesn't lift, the academics, the social dynamics of living with near-strangers, the quiet question of whether you belong here at all. Everyone around you looks like they're managing. You're not sure you are.

I've spent most of my career working with students at Chicago-area schools, including my pre-doctoral training at Northwestern University's Counseling and Psychological Services. I know the specific landscape, not a general version of it. The dorm situations, the academic pressure, the social dynamics of the first year. I'm listed on ThrivingCampus, a specialist directory for college mental health providers, and I see students via telehealth, which means no commute and no waiting weeks for a campus appointment.

Ideal for: Undergraduate and graduate students at Chicago-area schools, including Northwestern, Loyola, DePaul, UChicago, and Illinois Tech, navigating academic pressure, adjustment, and everything else that comes with being here.

What many clients notice over time:

• Academic pressure that starts to feel more manageable once it's not carrying everything else
• Getting through a hard week without it becoming a hard month
• Campus starting to feel like somewhere they belong
  

— anxiety disorders

Therapy for Anxiety

You've rehearsed the conversation before it happens and rehashed it after. You're prepared for every scenario, which is exhausting, because there's always another one arriving. From the outside, you look calm. Inside, anxiety is running a significant amount of your daily life, and you've started to notice it making your world smaller.

High-functioning anxiety is often invisible. You're performing well, showing up, delivering. That doesn't make it less real, and it doesn't mean you have to keep managing it alone. My approach is skills-first. CBT therapy is the primary framework, with DBT therapy and ACT therapy drawn in when they're a better fit. Every session produces something tangible you can actually use. Understanding why anxiety works the way it does matters. What you can do with that understanding is what changes things.

Ideal for: High-achieving professionals, college students, and adults whose anxiety doesn't show on the outside, including perfectionism, social anxiety, panic, and the relentless pressure that doesn't turn off.

What many clients notice over time:

• Anxious thoughts that arrive without automatically becoming a spiral
• Situations they'd been avoiding starting to feel navigable again
• Sunday-night dread about the week ahead starting to ease
  

— Trauma and PTSD

Therapy for Trauma

You moved on. You built a life, kept going, filed it away. And it works, until something happens. A reaction that feels too big for what's actually in front of you. A pattern in relationships you recognize and still end up in. Something from before showing up in the present. You can see it clearly. Seeing it hasn't been enough to change it.

Trauma therapy involves helping your nervous system understand that it happened in the past, so that present situations stop triggering a past-day response. I work at the intersection of trauma and relationship patterns. My particular focus is helping people understand how past harm reshapes the ability to evaluate safety, and building real, practical tools for what comes after. This work runs through everything I do. Eating disorders, anxiety, and the high-achiever patterns I see often carry a trauma layer.

Ideal for: Adults living with the effects of past abuse, sexual violence, childhood trauma, or PTSD, including people who haven't labeled their experience as trauma but recognize the patterns.

What many clients notice over time:

• Reactions that once felt disproportionate starting to make sense, then starting to shift
• Being in a disagreement without immediately assuming it will become something dangerous
  

— High-Performing Professionals

Therapy for Professionals

You've done what you set out to do. The career, the role, the milestones. And you're running on less than you'd tell anyone. The people closest to you are getting what's left at the end of the day. You hit a milestone you worked toward for years and the feeling you expected wasn't there. There's no breakdown to point to. Just a flatness that a vacation hasn't fixed.

The work is practical: understanding the patterns that are costing you, building something more sustainable, and developing real coping skills for managing the stress your job brings home. I work specifically with high-functioning professionals, and I understand the particular friction between needing support and having built an identity around not needing it. The approach is direct, evidence-based, and produces something real in every session.

Ideal for: Mid-career professionals, executives, and high-achievers whose anxiety, perfectionism, or burnout is invisible from the outside, people performing well and quietly running on empty.

What many clients notice over time:

• Work staying at work more often than it used to
• Being present at the end of the day for the people who matter
• The internal pressure that says it's never enough starting to ease
  

— Tinnitus-Related Distress

Psychological Treatment for Tinnitus

You've seen the ENT. You've been to the audiologist. The hearing is technically okay. Nobody told you what to do about the rest of it. The sound that doesn't turn off. The sleep that's gone. The quiet rooms that aren't quiet anymore. The people around you think you should be able to ignore it. You cannot. And the thoughts about what this means for your future are getting dark.

Tinnitus is a physical symptom. The psychological distress it causes is treatable. The goal isn't to make the sound disappear. The goal is to change your relationship to it so the distress eases, sleep returns, and life becomes livable again. I use CBT therapy adapted specifically for tinnitus, developed through my work with PTSD, where tinnitus frequently co-occurs. Referrals from ENTs and audiologists are welcome.

Ideal for: People experiencing significant psychological distress related to tinnitus, including sleep loss, anxiety, avoidance, and grief, especially those who have been through medical channels without relief.

What many clients notice over time:

• The sound moving to the background more often than it stays in front
  
  
• Sleep returning in increments
  
  
• Being able to be in a quiet room again