Adoption
Whether you're an adoptee, birth parent, or adoptive family member — adoption is a lifelong process that brings up questions, grief, and identity challenges at every stage.
Learn moreCounseling · Chicago & Oak Park, IL
Specialized counseling with a multicultural therapist who integrates personal experience and passion with clinical research and training for those affected by adoption, chronic illness, and individuals balancing a public life with their personal life. In-person in Chicago & Oak Park, and across Illinois via telemental health.
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Whether you're an adoptee, birth parent, or adoptive family member — adoption is a lifelong process that brings up questions, grief, and identity challenges at every stage.
Learn moreLiving with, or supporting someone with Long Covid, ME/CFS, or other chronic health conditions means navigating losses, stigma, and the challenge of building a meaningful life within non-negotiable limitations.
Learn moreUsing yourself or your story to advocate for a cause, or being known to people you don't know in return creates unique pressures and challenges that few people truly understand.
Learn moreWhy Seeing Your Light Counseling
At Seeing Your Light Counseling, you enter a therapeutic space designed for people whose specific experiences and challenges are often met by stigma and misconceptions, which impacts our identities, relationships with family, friends, people at work, and being in public. This often leads us to doubt ourselves or become hesitant to open up to others. Sanna offers a space where rather than starting by having to explain yourself and dismantling common misconceptions about your experiences and challenges with race, culture, adoption, invisible health conditions, disability, or a certain public visibility, you can enter knowing that your therapist has a deep understanding of common shared experiences from personal lived experiences, specialized clinical training, and working with people of color or BIPOC clients (esp. African American, Latino), people of different cultural backgrounds (European, Asian, South Asian, American), and different religious orientations (Christian, Muslim). Serving clients in-person in Chicago, Oak Park and other Chicago suburbs; and via telemental health throughout Illinois.
Getting started
An informal 20-minute conversation to see if working together feels right. No pressure, no obligation.
We begin by exploring where you're at, how you got here, and where you'd like to go.
Regular sessions to create a life worth living based on your values and unique circumstances; either in-person (Chicago/Oak Park) or online (across Illinois) according to your preferences.
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