Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapists in Chicago Heights, Illinois IL
Chicago Heights Therapists (Statistics)
Average years in practice
15 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$190
Gender ID
| 62% |
Female |
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| 28% |
Male |
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| 5% |
Gender Fluid |
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| 5% |
Non-Binary |
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Session Type
| 53% |
In Person and Online |
|
| 47% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 75% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 66% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 63% | Depression |
| 54% | Self Esteem |
| 53% | Stress |
| 49% | Relationship and Marriage Counseling |
| 46% | Loss or Grief |
We are proud to feature top rated Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapists in Chicago Heights, IL. We encourage you to review each profile to find your best match.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Margo Tirado MA LCPC
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LCPC
Carrying anxiety, holding back your voice, or tending to everyone else’s needs can feel deeply lonely. If you’re stretched thin or unsure of your next step, I want you to know that you don’t have to keep doing this by yourself.
With over 30 years as a psychotherapist specializing in EFT, somatic work, anxiety, and trauma, I’ve supported countless women right at this crossroads. I’ve seen how healing becomes possible when the body is included in the conversation and the nervous system finally has room to unwind.
Together, we’ll create a therapeutic space filled with warmth, honesty, and grounded support. Using body-based tools and compassionate guidance, I’ll help you feel safe enough to explore what’s underneath—and empowered to build the life you’ve been longing for.
30 Years Experience
In-Person Near Chicago Heights, IL
Online in Chicago Heights, Illinois
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Brittany Boyd
Licensed Professional Counselor, PhD., LPC
Hello! Let’s start by recognizing your strength and courage to be here today. I understand how difficult it can be to ask for help in a world that demands so much from you. Congratulations on taking this major first step. As your therapist, my role is to help you navigate and overcome the challenges you’re facing, whether it’s anxiety, depression, grief, career development, relationship issues, etc. I received my Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology, my MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and my B.A. in Psychology. I am passionate about using my years of experience, education, and training to help someone like you.
I genuinely care about my clients. My top priorities are gaining your trust, showing compassion, and allowing you to feel heard and respected. I utilize evidence-based treatments tailored to each client’s unique needs and goals. Together, we will develop a treatment plan that promotes emotional well-being, personal growth, and the best possible outcomes.
Now is the perfect time to embark on a journey that leads to a stronger, healthier, and more blissful you. I am excited about the opportunity to support you during your time of need and add value to your life. If you think I would be a good match for you, please reach out to begin your journey towards healing and growth. I hope to hear from you soon.
10 Years Experience
Online in Chicago Heights, Illinois (Online Only)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Sarah Fandel
Counselor/Therapist, LPC, LMHC, LCPC
Are you looking to know yourself on a deeper level? To improve your self-esteem, relationships, or emotion regulation? To heal from trauma or loss? To move away from avoidance, people pleasing, or habits that hold you back? Whether you seek to work on a specific goal or to focus more generally on self-exploration and growth, I am happy you are considering working with me. I am confident that we all possess a deep capacity for healing, resiliency, and connection. I strive to continually learn from and integrate multi-faceted modalities and theories of counseling to provide therapy that aligns with your individual needs and goals.
I work with clients affected by depression; anxiety; systems of oppression, any form of trauma or abuse; life transition difficulties; emotion dysregulation; attachment and relationship concerns; disordered eating patterns, body image issues; obsessive compulsive tendencies; phobias; gender dysphoria; and identity concerns.
10 Years Experience
Online in Chicago Heights, Illinois (Online Only)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Kelly Trawczynski, LMSW
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMSW, LCSW
You don't have to stay stuck in cycles of fear, shame, or disconnection. Therapy can be the bridge between surviving and truly living. I specialize in helping adults untangle complex layers of trauma, spirituality, and sexuality so they can reconnect to their truest selves. Whether you’re healing from a traumatic event, exploring your sexuality, working through sexual shame, or soothing a wounded inner child, you are welcome here.
With over eleven years of experience, I draw from specialized training in EMDR, trauma-focused CBT (TF-CBT), somatic (mind-body) therapy, sex therapy, mindfulness-based approaches, and DBT. Together, we’ll address both the emotional and physical imprints of trauma — building skills to calm anxiety, reclaim safety in your body, and rebuild trust in yourself.
11 Years Experience
Online in Chicago Heights, Illinois (Online Only)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Wolf Pack Therapy
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Wolf Pack is a team of therapists dedicated to helping you feel seen, supported, and understood. We work collaboratively to provide trauma-responsive, compassionate care for anxiety, depression, grief, neurodiversity, identity, and life transitions, supporting you in taking meaningful steps toward wellness
18 Years Experience
Online in Chicago Heights, Illinois (Online Only)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Erin Brumback
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
I am a compassionate and experienced therapist with over 13 years in the mental health field. I earned my Master’s in Social Work from Indiana University. I believe everyone is their own expert and work from a strengths-based, whole-person perspective. My approach is individualized and collaborative, tailoring each session to your unique needs.
10 Years Experience
Online in Chicago Heights, Illinois (Online Only)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Rick Rodgers
Counselor/Therapist, MSW, LCSW, CADC, CCTP, RYT 500
🧠 Specialized Support: Neuro-Affirming Therapy for Resilience and Healing
I am a licensed psychotherapist who, drawing on over ten years of specialized experience and my personal journey with AUDHD (Autism and ADHD), is dedicated to helping adults heal from complex challenges.
I offer focused support for individuals grappling with:
Neurodiversity (ADHD and Autism)
Trauma and Narcissistic Abuse
Addictions and Chronic Stress
Anxiety and Chronic Pain
If you suspect you are neurodivergent, as I am, I welcome the opportunity to connect and explore your unique experience.
My Integrative Approach
My practice blends clinical expertise with advanced body-mind techniques to foster resilience, self-discovery, and deep inner peace:
Clinical Modalities: Integrating traditional talk therapy with powerful, evidence-based methods such as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
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, IFS (Internal Family Systems) , mindfulness, and somatic practices.
Conscious Awareness: Utilizing techniques to cultivate awareness and access the inner resources that lead to calm and strength.
I offer a safe, supportive space dedicated to empowering you toward a brighter, balanced future. Seeking support takes courage, and I am here to listen and guide you.
Services are available securely online in Indiana, Illinois, New Hampshire, Arizona, and Texas.
🔒 Important Practice Notes and Disclaimers
Session Integrity and AI Consent
As a veteran, I prioritize systems that ensure accuracy and support, which includes secure record-keeping. All session recordings are automatically transcribed using a secure, HIPAA-compliant AI service. Your consent to this transcription is required for treatment.
Emotional Support Animal (ESA) Letter Assessments
ESA letter assessments are available for $250. This fee includes all assessment tools and clinical labor for writing the letter.
Prerequisites: You must demonstrate a history of trying other appropriate treatments for your condition, such as medication and therapy.
Disclaimer: The assessment is a thorough clinical necessity evaluation and is not a guarantee that a letter will be written.
Integrity: Please understand this is a clinical process. Do not pursue this assessment if your primary goal is solely to circumvent a no-pet policy in housing.
9 Years Experience
Online in Chicago Heights, Illinois (Online Only)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Debra Alper, Life Transitions Counseling PLLC
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Choosing a therapist is a highly subjective experience. Although education, good training and a comfortable environment all are important factors in the therapeutic experience, the most important quality to look for in a therapist is whether you feel that you can develop a trusting, open communication with them. Therapy ultimately is a relationship between you and your therapist. It is a different relationship than any other relationships you have in your life as it is bound by professional ethics, theory and it is not an equal give and take relationship. As a therapist, it is my job to help you create an environment that feels safe, supportive, and conducive to your self growth and insight. It is not my job to judge you, direct you, or impose my opinions onto your life. We work together to create a place for you in which you can discover what it is that you really need, want and feel outside of other's opinions and influences. It is my job to help you to strengthen your inner voice and the self awareness that allows you to find the answers to your own questions.
26 Years Experience
Online in Chicago Heights, Illinois (Online Only)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Empowered Wellbeing, Trauma/Complex Trauma (CPTSD), Dissociation and Addiction Recovery Care
Life Coach, view my credentials online at: www.recoveringfromwithin.com/credentialslongform
We started our practice supporting Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse to recover from the effects of their abuse and complex grief, and continue to center that care. Our practice includes support for trauma, complex trauma, dissociation, associated and co-occurring health and chronic health needs, anxiety, depression, addiction, personality disorders. We also offer integrative mental health care for mold toxin and some other environmental toxin exposure, and some TBI and PCS symptoms, as well as support for folks with chronic health related mental health needs that intersect with the above traumas. We offer intersectional care that is decolonizing, supports those impacted by systemic abuse, and supports affirming neurodiversity. We integrate TIST-- Trauma Informed Stabilization Therapy, DBR -- Deep Brain Reorienting to recover from Shock, IFS-- Internal Family Systems Work, PVT-- Polyvagal Theory, AT -- Attachment Theory, Nonviolent Communication, Inner Child Work, IPNB -- Interpersonal Neurobiology, Bonnie Badenoch's IPNB and dyad work, Memory Reconsolidation, Coherence/Existential Level of Care, BrainSpotting, DARE Attachment Model, CranioSacral (for mind, gut, and acute trauma recovery), Mediation/Relational/Partners/Couples Support, Functional Mental Health Care via Psychiatry Redefined Training and BioIndividual Nutrition, Integrative and CAM Health Care (herbalism, homeopathy, remote Traditional Chinese Medicine and other CAM Care), Student-Directed Learning Pedagogies (from Education), compassionate Parenting and inner Re-parenting, ... and a strong Intersectional and Social Justice Framework to support clients to recover from the debilitating effects of traumas and myriad effects of traumas, facilitate clients being centered in their own sense of self, develop healthier boundaries, cultivate self awareness (mindfulness), understand and parse power structures for healthy discernment ... and move towards more fulfilling self actualization that is compassionate, inclusive and also eco-relationally congruent.
We are a POC/GM Practice with a decolonizing orientation and Intersectional framework. Red lines are red lines -- we don't support abuses of power systemically and culturally. We are supportive of indigenous peoples and other systemically marginalized peoples, and their rights to safety, parity, sovereignty and dignity. If you are interested in support, we'd love to work with you!
Our focus has been on supporting adult survivors of childhood sexual trauma and torture, folks recovering from narcissistic trauma, folks recovering from oppressive hegemonic systemic trauma and/or folks recovering from these traumas along with recovering from toxic mold exposure.
We do work with individuals with other needs who are active and engaged bystanders and activists advocating alongside the most systemically oppressed for systemic change for the greater good of the whole global community, prioritizing care for the most marginalized. We also support those who are actively stopping and recovering from committing moral injury and boundary transgressions and willingly doing the work to repair and become bystanders with their privilege rather than violent enactors. This is a no mass media and state propaganda zone.
If you are interested in support, please ask! We'd love to work with you.
Keywords: Sexual Abuse Survivors Care, DV Care, Trafficking Trauma Care, Colonial Oppression Care, Torture Care, Complex Trauma Care, Dissociation Care, DID, DDNOS, CPTSD, BPD, Narcissistic Abuse and Bullying Trauma Care, Workplace Trauma Care, Mold Recovery Care, Chronic Health Related Care, Integrative, Functional, CAM Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Homeopathy, Flower Essences, Herbalism, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Intersectional, Intersectional Feminism, Progressive Internationalism, Anti-Racist, Anti-Oppression, Inclusive, Mediation, Repair, Attachment, Transformative Justice, Human and Civil Rights Affirming, Honoring International Law; DBR, IFS, TIST, SPI, PVT, SSP, IPNB, RLT, CI, BSP, Inner Child Work, Psychiatry Redefined Fellow, CranioSacral, Zero Balancing, Somatics Lab, Ethno-Traditional, Eco-relational
14 Years Experience
Online in Chicago Heights, Illinois (Online Only)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Merrisa Dawn Santos
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, NCC, CCTMHP, CCTP
In the intricate tapestry of our lives, the pursuit of happiness, safety, and love is a universal quest. Yet, for many, the journey toward emotional wellness is fraught with challenges beyond their control. Trauma, familial history, and the burdens of life can cast shadows that obscure life's inherent beauty. I believe that each individual deserves to uncover, rediscover, and reclaim life's joy and purpose.
As a compassionate and dedicated psychoanalytical therapist, I aim to guide you through this transformative process with warmth and understanding. Through welcoming and conversational counseling services, I aim to create a space where you can explore the intricate connections between your mind, body, and spirit. This holistic approach seeks to assist you in reconnecting with your higher purpose, allowing you to navigate life unburdened by emotional pain.
4 Years Experience
Online in Chicago Heights, Illinois (Online Only)