Counseling · Chicago & Oak Park, IL

This is not the life I asked nor planned for.Make your life worth living for you.

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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Who I work with

You deserve a therapist with a deep understanding

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.

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Chronic Illness

Living 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.

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Public Life & Advocacy

Using 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.

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Why Seeing Your Light Counseling

This is a space for those who often feel invisible and poorly understood

Meet Sanna

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

Simple from the very first step

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Book a Free Call

An informal 20-minute conversation to see if working together feels right. No pressure, no obligation.

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Your First Session

We begin by exploring where you're at, how you got here, and where you'd like to go.

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Ongoing Support

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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