Services

Relationships are hard and they require care and work. Are you finding that you are having more “bad times” with your spouse or partner than “good”? If so, couples therapy can help provide the intervention and support your relationship needs. At Mindworthy, we help you identify current stressors, problematic patterns, and individual and collective history impacting your relationship. Furthermore, we will assist you in increasing healthy communication, intimacy, and positive conflict resolution. 

The following are common reasons couples seek therapy:

• Communication Problems
• Lack of Intimacy
• Parenting/Family of Origin Conflict
• Infidelity
• Misaligned Goals/Values
• Pre-Marital Counseling

Because all families are unique, they bring their own distinctive set of strengths and challenges. Family therapy may include an entire family system or a couple of its members. Each member of the family may have a separate perspective and goal for family therapy.

As such, it is necessary to evaluate these items and identify a mutual goal(s) to help each member of the family feel valued and heard. Depending on the specific family’s need, a treatment plan may be identified to include both individual and family sessions.

We at Mindworthy Therapy believe that all children are inherently good and connection seeking beings. Because children often lack the necessary skills to identify and communicate their emotions and needs, we view their behaviors as a window into their internal world. This window provides the insight necessary to help understand your child and the current challenges they are experiencing. By utilizing evidence based practices and expressive art interventions, we will help your child identify and understand their emotions. We will model, role play and practice effectively communicating their feelings and needs and increasing their coping skills to manage these big feelings.

After meeting with your child for their initial appointment, an individualized treatment plan will be developed with specific goals and objectives to address the presenting problems bringing them into counseling. If indicated, we may also recommend incorporating family therapy sessions and collaborating with your child’s school or other mental health providers to best support them.

The following are common reasons to seek therapy for your child:

• Behavior Problems at Home or School
• Feelings of Depression or Anxiety
• ADHD
• Bullying
• Grief/Loss
• Low Self Esteem
• Family Discord including Divorce & Blended Family Issues
• Trauma
• OCD/Recurring Intrusive Thoughts
• Gender Identity

Mental health conditions are common among teens and young adults. 50% of all lifetime mental illnesses develop by age 14 and 75% develop by age 24.  

Adolescence can be a particularly challenging time. It is a period of complex emotional and physical growth where the battle between seeking independence while maintaining support and approval from one’s own family often clashes.  As a result, adolescence can often be fraught with mood instability and opposition, sometimes causing conflict in the parent-child relationship and disrupting the family unit.

Adolescents have a unique set of challenges and tasks at this period in their lives. Often teenagers are coping with navigating first romantic relationships, social peer groups, and academic and social pressures. Moreover, they are often juggling the difficult task of becoming independent and discovering their identity while trying to please the authority figures in their lives.

In working with adolescents, we attempt to meet them where they are, to help them feel accepted as they are. Often creative therapeutic interventions such as art, games and writing are incorporated into their talk therapy sessions

Some adolescents are eager to participate in therapy while others are apprehensive. We address this apprehension directly and work to help them explore their fears and identify their goals for therapy.  Creating a positive therapeutic alliance with trust and rapport requires adolescent clients to have confidentiality in their sessions.  As such, we maintain a confidentiality policy with adolescents where, unless safety is at risk, we will not share specific content from their sessions with their parents. We invite both the adolescent and parent(s) to the first session to discuss this and the presenting problems and to identify therapeutic goals.

The following are common reasons adolescents seek therapy:

• Feelings of Depression or Anxiety
• School Stress/Academic Problems
• Difficulty Adjusting to a Life Event
• Cutting/Self-Harm
• Substance Abuse
• Family Discord including Divorce & Blended Family Issues
• Anger Management/Trouble with Authority Figures
• ADHD
• Oppositional  Defiant/ Rule Breaking
• LGBTQ+ & Gender Identity

The transition to motherhood/fatherhood is a significant and complex life experience and can sometimes include a perinatal mood or anxiety disorder. 1 in 7 moms and 1 in 10 dads suffer from postpartum depression. At Mindworthy, it is our goal to help you navigate and thrive in your journey of parenthood.

The following are common reasons to seek pregnancy & postpartum therapy: 

• Not Feeling Connected to your Baby
• Feeling Inadequate as a Parent 
• Frequently Feeling Worried, Nervous, or Angry 
• Difficulty Coping
• Unable to Relax and Enjoy this Special Time 
• Feelings of Hopelessness or Sadness 
• Assessment for Postpartum Anxiety or Postpartum Depression 
• Traumatic Birth Experience 
• Loss of a Pregnancy or Baby

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an effective, evidence-based psychotherapy approach that can help you heal emotional pain that has developed due to distressing life experiences. EMDR has been shown to effectively decrease or eliminate symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Anxiety, and Depression. Repeated studies show that by using EMDR, people can experience functional benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to obtain in traditional talk therapy. 

How Does EMDR Therapy Work?
Do you find yourself being disproportionately triggered by interactions that do not seem to warrant the emotional response you feel? This may indicate past unresolved emotional distress or trauma that EMDR can help you reprocess and heal. EMDR works by allowing your brain to do it’s own healing.

EMDR utilizes bilateral stimulation, such as eye movements or alternate tapping to help you reprocess difficult experiences in a physiological way. This process is similar to the REM cycle experienced during sleep, although you will be fully alert during treatment. It is important to note, that EMDR does not take away memories, instead it allows your brain to reprocess these memories in a healthy way. By doing such, these once difficult, stuck experiences or memories will be less emotionally charged and help shift feelings, thoughts and sensations to allow for a more adapted and healthier you. 

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At Mindworthy, we understand that life gets hectic. Whether traveling for work, challenges arranging childcare or transportation issues, Mindworthy wants to help make getting the help you need convenient.  As such, we offer teletherapy services through our HIPPA compliant platform called SimplePractice for your online sessions. This is a secure and convenient way for you to see your therapist when you are unable to come into the office.

To access our easy to use platform; a laptop, tablet, or telephone is needed. To ensure that teletherapy services will meet your needs and treatment goals, an assessment for appropriateness of fit will be completed.

Teletherapy services are offered for individual sessions and for residents of Illinois. Please note that not all insurance companies and insurance plans cover telehealth benefits. Please be sure to check your plan to ensure coverage. For clients without insurance coverage, self-payment options are available.