Online Trauma and PTSD therapists in Wauconda, Illinois IL
Find experienced online trauma and PTSD therapists in Wauconda who provide testing, evidence-based treatment for trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and related challenges such as anxiety, depression, and stress. Compare detailed therapist profiles and connect with a provider that’s right for you.
PTSD/Trauma
Dr. Jenny Shields
Psychologist
Trauma has a way of rewriting your story without your permission. Even when you tell yourself you’ve moved past it, memories can suddenly feel overwhelming, trust becomes harder, and your mind and body stay on high alert. Dr. Shields understands how exhausting and isolating this experience can be. She provides compassionate, specialized support grounded in highly effective trauma-specific approaches, including Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Prolonged Exposure (PE), and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). With care, empathy, and patience, she’ll help you rebuild your sense of safety, regain your clarity, and reclaim your story—on your own terms.
12 Years Experience
Online in Wauconda, IL
PTSD/Trauma
Cultivate Your Essence
Registered Psychotherapist, LPC, LCPC, MFT
Trauma can affect how we think, feel, relate to others, and experience the world around us. At Cultivate Your Essence, we provide trauma-informed care for individuals experiencing PTSD, complex trauma, childhood trauma, relationship trauma, and other adverse experiences. We help clients process their experiences, strengthen coping skills, and move toward healing and restoration.
8 Years Experience
Online in Wauconda, IL (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
South Psychology
Psychologist, PhD
South Psychology is your partner in overcoming trauma and reclaiming your well-being. Our team of dedicated therapists provides evidence-based therapy and assessments for individuals of all ages, including children, teens, adults, and families.
Why Choose South Psychology for Trauma and PTSD?
Expertise: Our therapists specialize in trauma-informed care. We understand the impact of trauma on mental health and work collaboratively to guide you toward healing.
Holistic Approach: Beyond addressing symptoms, we consider the whole person—mind, body, and spirit. Our goal is to restore balance and resilience.
Customized Care: Whether you’re a child struggling with nightmares, a teen coping with flashbacks, or an adult navigating triggers, we tailor our services to your unique needs.
Family Support: Trauma affects not only the individual but also their loved ones. We offer family therapy to strengthen bonds and foster understanding.
Our Trauma and PTSD Services Include:
Individual Therapy: Explore trauma narratives, develop coping skills, and find hope.
Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT): We utilize evidence-based techniques from TF-CBT to help you process traumatic experiences, manage distressing emotions, and regain control over your life.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing): A proven technique for trauma resolution.
Group Therapy: Connect with others who share similar experiences.
Assessment and Diagnosis: Understand your trauma-related symptoms and create a personalized treatment plan.
8 Years Experience
Online in Wauconda, IL
PTSD/Trauma
Sue De Santo
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
I work with individuals carrying the weight of past trauma, painful relationships, and experiences that still live in the body as anxiety, numbness, or feeling constantly on guard. I bring compassion and relief to the places that feel stuck or overwhelmed. . My goal is to offer a steady, caring space where you don’t have to do it alone and where healing becomes possible not just in your mind, but in your body and relationships too.
35 Years Experience
Online in Wauconda, IL (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Ashley Pinto
Therapist, LCPC, CCTP
Trauma isn’t necessarily something that happens to you—it’s what happens inside you as a result of an overwhelming experience. It can leave the body stuck in survival mode, the mind cut off from its natural rhythms, and a person disconnected from their true self. It can show up as tension, emotional overwhelm, feeling numb, or reacting to everyday situations as if the danger is still present. While trauma affects both the body and the brain, the good news is that healing is possible. Approaches that help people reconnect with their bodies, understand their emotional and relational patterns, and restore a sense of safety can gradually release old survival responses and rebuild a felt sense of wholeness and resilience.
Trauma can impact us following a single incident (e.g., a car accident, attack, or medical procedure) or ongoing patterns of abuse, neglect, never feeling seen and heard by caregivers. Without adequate resources or treatment, the effects can linger long past the experience. Through integrative somatic trauma therapy, I help women develop a deeper understanding of their internal responses and expand their capacity to engage with life more fully. Together, we will work toward greater clarity, connection, and the ability to move forward in ways that feel more grounded, intentional, and aligned with who you truly are.
I no longer offer weekly insurance-based 53 minute sessions. After a decade of seeing clients under this model, I've shifted my practice to private pay customized services that better meet the needs of my niche clients. My customized Therapy Intensives are specially designed to offer you a more a more spacious, efficient, and streamlined for a deeper and more transformative experience. They are intended to be short-term and can serve as an adjunct to ongoing therapy with your already established therapist, such as in the case that you really enjoy the work you are doing with them but they do not specialize in an area that I do. I also offer monthly extended sessions (90 minutes to 2 hours) for those looking for a hybrid option, that allows for deeper work as well as ongoing support. Please visit my website for more details on how we can work together.
18 Years Experience
Online in Wauconda, IL
PTSD/Trauma
Natalie A Shafer
Counselor/Therapist, MA, NCC, LPC
Trauma often sits at the core of many emotional and relational challenges, shaping how we experience ourselves, others, and the world. It’s natural for the body and mind to respond to reminders of past experiences as if they are still happening. I work with you to gently process and rework these experiences, so they feel more integrated and rooted in the past rather than the present.
2 Years Experience
Online in Wauconda, IL
PTSD/Trauma
Transformations Counseling PLLC
Counselor/Therapist
We help clients heal from trauma with evidence-based approaches such as EMDR and CBT. You can find safety, understanding, and strength after painful experiences.
11 Years Experience
Online in Wauconda, IL
PTSD/Trauma
Dan Walinsky
Psychologist, PhD
I've found that the range of traumas that people experience disrupts our experience of day-to-day life and relationships in so many ways. So many people who've experienced patterns of traumatizing, persistently invalidating, or minimizing experiences have found coping strategies to manage the profound impacts of trauma but eventually find that those strategies no longer work. Together, we will look at the impact of traumas and using a range of practices, which potentially include EMDR, internal parts work, and polyvagal theory, we will work to supportively rebuild a sense of self-guided trust in the world.
4 Years Experience
Online in Wauconda, IL
PTSD/Trauma
Juniper Mental Health
Psychologist, PhD
We have several providers who have expertise in abuse and trauma treatment. Specifically Steven Lawyer, Garrett Pollert, and Michael Twohig provide evidence based treatment for trauma related experiences.
8 Years Experience
Online in Wauconda, IL (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Bloom Behavioral Health Ptrs
Treatment Center, Psy'D, LPC, LMSW, CAADC, CCS
Trauma can have lasting effects on emotional health, relationships, and daily functioning. PTSD may involve intrusive memories, nightmares, heightened anxiety, avoidance, or difficulty feeling safe. We provide trauma-informed, evidence-based treatment to help individuals process traumatic experiences, reduce distressing symptoms, restore a sense of safety, and move toward lasting healing.
14 Years Experience
Online in Wauconda, IL
PTSD/Trauma
Dr. Samantha Kallberg
Psychologist, PsyD, LP
My goal is to provide a space of compassion and support that helps you understand yourself and feel at ease in your mind and body.
8 Years Experience
Online in Wauconda, IL (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Hannah Muetzelfeld
Psychologist, PhD
I specialize in Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), an evidence-based treatment for PTSD and trauma-related symptoms. CPT helps individuals process and reframe unhelpful beliefs related to their trauma, allowing them to regain a sense of safety, trust, and control in their lives. I work collaboratively with clients to adaptively apply this modality to each unique case.
12 Years Experience
Online in Wauconda, IL (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Merrisa Dawn Santos
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, NCC, CCTMHP, CCTP
In assisting patients struggling with trauma and PTSD, I offer a compassionate and supportive environment to explore their experiences. Through therapy, we address the impact of trauma on their emotions, behaviors, and relationships. I provide education about trauma responses and coping mechanisms, helping them develop strategies to manage symptoms such as flashbacks, nightmares, and hypervigilance. Together, we work towards processing and integrating their traumatic experiences, fostering healing, resilience, and a sense of empowerment. Ongoing support and therapy aim to facilitate their journey towards recovery and improved well-being.
5 Years Experience
Online in Wauconda, IL (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Dr Calvin Young
Counselor/Therapist, PhD, LCPC
We live in a traumatizing world, marooned on a planet that appears at times to be bent on getting rid of us. We acknowledge and apply an eclectic and integrative approach to analyze, understand the root causes and address the signs and symptoms of traumatic disorders
30 Years Experience
Online in Wauconda, IL (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Danielle Keys at Headway
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, M.S.ED, LCPC
Trauma is sometimes unknown or related to a specific event in one's life. During the assessment, you'll be asked specific questions in order to capture if there is trauma known in your life. Sometimes trauma is carried around through no fault of the client, however, the client has to choose to do something about it. I use Person-Centered, Dialectical Behavior, or Trauma-Focused CBT approaches with clients. The goal is to help client's express themselves without judgement, to be heard, validated, and encouraged to make choices to minimize and accept certain types of distress.
11 Years Experience
Online in Wauconda, IL (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Faye Williams
Marriage and Family Therapist, ALMFT
Trauma is trauma is trauma, and can leave an indelible mark. Everyone processes their experiences differently. Everyone deserves to heal on their own terms, in their own time.
4 Years Experience
Online in Wauconda, IL
PTSD/Trauma
Best Therapies, Inc.
Therapist
There are three main types of trauma: Acute, Chronic, or Complex. Acute trauma results from a single incident. Chronic trauma is repeated and prolonged such as domestic violence or abuse. Complex trauma is exposure to varied and multiple traumatic events, often of an invasive, interpersonal nature. Sometimes people experience post traumatic responses to adverse childhood experiences, a single event or living as marginalized identities in our society. That is, some people experience trauma response by dealing with recurring microaggressions, discrimination, bullying from individuals, communities and macro aggressions such as systemic oppression. We need to consider the impact traumatic experiences have on our mind, body and overall experience as a human navigating uncertain and challenging times.
7 Years Experience
Online in Wauconda, IL
PTSD/Trauma
Lincoln Park Psychology, Inc
Psychologist, Licensed Clinical Psychologists, LCPC, LPC, LCSW, LSW, CADC, AMFT
Trauma can leave lasting imprints on your mind and body, affecting how you feel, think, relate to others, and navigate daily life long after the event has passed. Our clinicians provide compassionate treatment appropriate to your comfort level, to help you process traumatic experiences and reclaim your sense of safety and control. Healing from trauma doesn't mean forgetting what happened—it means reducing its power over your present and future. With the right support, you can move beyond survival mode, rebuild trust in yourself and others, and create a life no longer defined by your past.
17 Years Experience
Online in Wauconda, IL
PTSD/Trauma
Shannon Gorres
Life Coach, MDiv, MA
My understanding of trauma has shifted along with international research on why some events create lasting challenging effects for some people but not for others. Our collective awareness has gone from thinking, “What's wrong with you?” to asking, “What happened to you?” and now focusing on, “Who was there for you?”
A simple retelling of a traumatic experience does not always deeply heal the one who suffers. While it can feel good to be truly heard, especially for those who have never told it before and need real empathy, repeatedly telling the story does not often change the subconscious beliefs implanted during the trauma or the nervous system’s reactivity.
Instead, we build a new relationship with a traumatic experience by re-approaching the memory and inviting a shift. Often the shift is around “Who could have been there for you.” While in factual reality, no one may have stopped the trauma, we can access another perspective that enables our bodies, hearts, and minds to feel supported. We can do this many ways: through role play, through calling in ancestors or pop stars or our highest selves, or by letting our wise adult-self take over the situation. Or we may use drawing materials or nature to discover a new part of the experience we didn’t realize before.
I've taken many trainings in the origins and effects of trauma and PTSD, and I find working with the nervous system and imaginal realm (creative liminal space) highly effective. I'm not a licensed mental health therapist; I'm a spiritual life coach, so my work is integrative. I offer: calm spaciousness & empathy as you talk, embodied processing options (drawing, clay work, self soothing), and inner parts work (mediated inner dialogue or a “committee of voices,” similar to Soulwork or Internal Family Systems).
Then we make a plan to implement the new shift into everyday life.
11 Years Experience
Online in Wauconda, IL
PTSD/Trauma
Summer Stewart, PsyD
Pre-Licensed Professional, PsyD
Trauma can leave you feeling on edge, disconnected, or like you’re constantly reliving the past. Maybe certain memories, people, or places still trigger you in ways that feel out of your control. If you’re feeling stuck in survival mode, therapy offers a safe space to begin healing. We’ll move at your pace—unpacking the pain, calming your nervous system, and helping you feel safe in your body again. You are not what happened to you—and you don’t have to face it alone.
7 Years Experience
Online in Wauconda, IL (Online Only)
Trauma and PTSD therapists in Wauconda, Illinois Statistics
Trauma and PTSD therapists in Wauconda, Illinois average 16 years of experience and charge around $202 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Trauma and PTSD (100%), Anxiety or Fears (87%), and Depression (73%).
Average years in practice
16 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$202
Gender ID
| 65% |
Female |
|
| 28% |
Male |
|
| 4% |
Non-Binary |
|
| 3% |
Gender Fluid |
|
Session Type
| 56% |
In Person and Online |
|
| 44% |
Online Only |
|
Top Specialties
| 100% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 87% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 73% | Depression |
| 61% | Stress |
| 54% | Self Esteem |
| 50% | Loss or Grief |
| 46% | Social Anxiety |