Relationships therapists

Family Therapist, LMFT, ATR, MFA

Sarah Eggers is a licensed marriage and family therapist and registered art therapist in Pasadena with 12 years in practice. She sees individuals, couples and families and especially enjoys working with teens and young adults dealing with depression, anxiety, eating disorders and trauma. She also supports clients through grief, life transitions and perinatal challenges. Her practice is trauma-informed and rests on the view that every person has worth, creativity and the capacity for connection. She recognizes how racism, sexism, homophobia and other forms of oppression affect mental health. Alongside talk therapy she uses art and expressive arts, EMDR, narrative and family systems work, and mindfulness. She offers sessions in person in Pasadena and online.

Psychologist, PsyD

Dr. Katie Strang is a licensed psychologist in Encino who works with teens, young adults, adults, parents and families. She focuses on intense emotions and emotion dysregulation, relationship difficulties and harmful behaviors, as well as anxiety, depression, OCD, borderline personality and substance use. She has more than ten years of experience delivering comprehensive DBT and CBT, is DBT-Linehan Board certified, and previously served as clinical director of a large group practice focused on CBT and DBT. She also uses exposure and response prevention. She brings a warm, collaborative, solution-focused style and is an LGBTQIA+ allied clinician who aims for an inclusive, culturally sensitive experience. She offers a free 15-minute consultation and sees clients in person in Encino and online.

Family Therapist, LMFT

Kim Glenn is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Torrance with nine years in practice. She often works with high-achieving young adults and professionals, who look fine from the outside while struggling privately with anxiety, imposter feelings or burnout. She also supports people living with chronic illness that others cannot see, along with depression, trauma, OCD, grief and family concerns. Her approach is warm and cognitive, helping clients examine and reshape the thought patterns that keep them running in overdrive, and she also uses CBT for insomnia, narrative and solution-focused work. She offers a free consultation and sessions in person in Torrance and online.

Family Therapist, MA, LMFT

Jaclyn Lieber is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Los Angeles who works with adults, older adults and couples. Her focus areas include relationship and couples concerns, anxiety, trauma, depression, grief, life transitions, and pregnancy and postpartum challenges. She sees self-acceptance as the starting point for change and believes each person has inner resilience to draw on. Her style is warm, open and collaborative. She draws on attachment theory, family systems, mindful self-compassion and relational Gestalt therapy, and her trauma-informed work includes somatic methods such as the Trauma Resiliency Model to help settle the nervous system. Sessions are in person in Los Angeles and online.

Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC

Sydney Shillinglaw is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Chicago who focuses on anxiety, adjustment to life changes and relationship concerns, and also helps with depression, trauma, ADHD, OCD, bipolar disorder, self-esteem and family conflict. Shillinglaw studied psychology at the University of Nebraska, earned a counseling psychology master's at The Chicago School, and has seen adults, adolescents, couples and families in outpatient and community mental health settings. The approach is collaborative, blending Adlerian, psychodynamic, relational and cognitive behavioral therapy with DBT and mindfulness, and tying sessions closely to each person's real-life goals. Clients can expect a calm, warm presence. Sessions are offered in person in Chicago and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LSW

Molly Sider is a licensed social worker in Oak Park with a Master of Social Work from Loyola University. Sider works with adults, older adults and couples, with particular attention to people in midlife and later years facing life transitions, identity shifts, relationship changes, aging, grief and loss, along with anxiety, depression and self-esteem. In 2021 Sider created and hosted a podcast featuring adults who changed course after age 40, and also performs and speaks about personal storytelling, which informs the use of story in therapy. The approach is empathic, curious and strengths-based, drawing on narrative therapy, CBT, DBT, emotionally focused and mindfulness-based methods. Sessions are offered online.

Psychologist, PhD

Dr. Maria Rago is a licensed psychologist in Naperville with 29 years in practice, much of it devoted to eating disorders. She has worked with individuals, couples and families affected by eating disorders across residential, inpatient and outpatient care, and she led ANAD, a national anorexia and eating disorders association, as president for 13 years. She also treats related concerns, including anxiety, depression, trauma, OCD, body image, self-esteem, grief, self-injury and addiction, and she sees children, teens, adults and older adults. Her style is deeply relational and steady. Methods include CBT, DBT, ACT, exposure and response prevention, EMDR and family therapy. She sees clients in person in Naperville and online.

Psychologist, PsyD

Dr. Megan Humphreys is a licensed psychologist in Skokie who works with adults from college age through later life. Many clients are capable people quietly coping with trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, perfectionism or low self-esteem, and Dr. Humphreys also helps with executive functioning and ADHD, building healthy habits, questions about drinking, life transitions, OCD and the perinatal period. Identity exploration and building a life that fits one's values are a particular interest. Sessions are collaborative and trauma-informed with attention to culture, built on ACT, DBT and other behavioral therapies, mixing insight and humor with accountability and practical action. Psychological testing is also offered. Sessions are available in person in Skokie and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, SEP

Eli Zucker is a licensed clinical social worker in Chicago with eight years in practice, licensed in Illinois, Michigan and Washington. He works with adults and focuses especially on men and LGBTQ+ clients facing trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, stress and life transitions. He has extensive experience with survivors of physical and sexual trauma and with people who have caused harm. A certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, he believes healing needs more than talk, combining body-based trauma work with polyvagal theory, Internal Family Systems and psychodynamic therapy, and teaching mindfulness and somatic practices clients can use on their own. His background includes community organizing and teaching at the University of Washington. He sees clients online.