Overcoming Internalized Homophobia
If you’ve ever lowered your voice on a date, edited your laugh in a meeting, or pulled your hand away at the crosswalk, you already...
Working Through Depression In Therapy Within the LGBTQ+ Community
Mara is a lesbian, a project manager, and a weekend page-turner who can lose an afternoon in the stacks of a neighborhood bookstore. Lately, the...
Why You Should Stop Searching for a Partner to Make You Happy
Let’s just get this out of the way: if your idea of a perfect relationship is someone swooping in to complete you like the final...
How Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) Helps the LGBTQ Community
As an LGBT therapist practicing in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood, I meet clients whose inner narratives sound like full choirs—sopranos of joy, baritones of shame, altos...
Anxiety Therapist Answers: Panic Attack or Too Much Coffee?
Few things feel more “Chicago” than hustling through the Loop with a steaming latte in hand. But for many Windy City residents, that caffeine kick...
Tips for Dealing With Seasonal Depression
When winter settles in and the sun starts disappearing before most people have even finished work, many people in Chicago notice a real and predictable...
Emotional Triggers: What Are They
Rush‑hour traffic as a masterclass in self‑management You leave Lakeview with time to spare, coffee steaming, podcast queued. Then the Kennedy turns into a parking...
The Link Between Stress and Autoimmune Disease: What Your Nervous System Is Trying to Tell You
Stress isn’t just “in your head”—it’s also in your bloodstream, your immune system, and your daily functioning. In recent years, science has drawn a bold...
Love Bombing: What You Should Know
Ah, yes, love bombing, a term that sounds like a steamy R&B single but is actually a toxic relationship tactic that can leave you more...
Irritability: How Emotional Dysregulation Feels and Affects Behavior
You’re standing in line at the coffee shop. The person in front of you is taking forever to order—adding syrups, asking questions, changing their mind....
Second Adolescence: The Powerful Rebirth LGBTQ+ Adults Experience
When Maritza, a 36-year-old trans woman living in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood, began hormone replacement therapy, she described feeling like a teenager again—navigating crushes, experimenting with...
LGBTQ Ghosting: The Unspoken Epidemic in Queer Dating and Friendships
If you’ve ever opened your phone, stared at that grey "delivered" checkmark, and wondered if your phone spontaneously combusted and deleted your last five texts,...
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