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About

Nicole

If you're looking to cultivate a stronger relationship with yourself, gain tools to manage anxiety, and embark on a journey to build self-identity and self-acceptance, you're in the right place. Managing anxiety, depression, grief, interrelational conflicts, and other life stressors alone is difficult. Nicole is here to guide and support, empowering you to tap into your innate strength to manage symptoms and develop new skills. Nicole fosters a strengths-based perspective that helps clients recognize their own resilience, set boundaries, and embrace the change needed to live more freely and authentically. Nicole uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help clients learn to be present, observe their thoughts without judgment, and develop a sense of inner calm that ultimately allows them to be the primary agent of their own growth.

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Nicole is a licensed clinical social worker who has worked with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families for nearly 20 years. In addition to 7 years in private practice, Nicole has worked in the foster care system and public schools. She supports clients processing grief, identifying and managing their emotions, improving executive functioning skills, and prioritizing self-love and care. Nicole is a 200-hour certified yoga instructor and has advanced training in yoga and mindfulness therapy for children and adolescents. She earned her master’s degree from Jane Addams College of Social Work and her undergraduate degree in social science from Michigan State University.

About

Joyce

If you have reached a time in your life where you are seeking deeper meaning, self-acceptance, and the confidence to assert yourself, Joyce is here to highlight your strengths and build a therapeutic relationship that gives you space to heal and grow. Believing that you are the expert of your own experience, she uses her training to support you in making sense of and working through whatever brings you to therapy. She also has an array of tools she can share that will help you to access your best self. 

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Joyce is a licensed clinical social worker with nine years of experience in the field. She has her master's in social work from the University of Chicago and an additional certification in trauma-informed care. Joyce began her career working with families on Chicago's South Side providing school-based mental health support for young people ages three to twenty-one before transitioning to virtual therapy full-time. Leading with acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy, Joyce tailors her approach to fit each client's unique needs and enjoys infusing brain science and clinical research into her sessions to help clients better understand their experiences. With couples, she uses Gottman Method Couples Therapy's evidence-based techniques for growing stable, meaningful, and loving partnerships. Joyce operates through a social justice lens that emphasizes community and acknowledges the structures that create real barriers in people's lives, helping clients to draw from their strengths, set boundaries that serve them, and create change for themselves.

About

Olivia

Are you feeling scattered or anxious? Maybe you’re struggling to stay focused, manage daily tasks, or figure out the next step. Your mind won’t slow down and everything feels urgent or overwhelming because you live in constant overdrive.  Olivia offers a compassionate, supportive space where you can slow down and untangle the mental clutter that makes it hard to focus or follow through. You will learn to access your strengths so that you feel more grounded, focused, and confident. Some days that might mean exploring what’s beneath the overwhelm and other days it might mean learning new tools customized for you so that they work for your brain and your life. Her approach is rooted in identifying and embracing your strengths, partnering with you to shape a path forward that feels both achievable and meaningful.

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Olivia is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a master’s in social work from Loyola University Chicago. Her professional experience spans educational, nonprofit, and private practice settings where she has supported youth, young adults, and families, with a focus on individuals managing anxiety, ADHD, and trauma. Olivia combines compassionate listening with practical support, integrating person-centered, strengths-based, cognitive-behavioral, and mindfulness-informed approaches. She also incorporates culturally responsive frameworks guided by a social justice lens that affirm each person’s unique identity and lived experience, honoring their dignity and guiding meaningful change that fits their life and values.

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