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Susan Schwendener

(she/her)
Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor
Illinois

Accepts

Aetna, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Cigna, Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey, Oscar (Optum), Oxford (Optum), Quest Behavioral Health, and United Healthcare (Optum)

Specializes in

ADD/ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, Infertility, Men's Issues, PTSD, and Women's Issues
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Great to meet you!

Are you feeling stressed or stalled in achieving your personal, relationship, or career dreams?

My goal is to help you to better understand your hopes, thoughts, and behaviors that help or limit you in achieving these dreams.

We then collaborate on naming and using your strengths and skills to find solutions to empower you.

A bit about my approach to therapy

We will use insight-oriented and accountability practices to help you remain productive and to challenge thoughts, coping patterns, or unconscious beliefs that may be keeping you stuck or in limbo.

What you can expect from our first session

We will work in a calm, nonjudgmental way to help you use your innate strengths and skills, and to build new practices that work for you.

Mental and physical health are the same thing. I ask clients to consider their diet, exercise, sleep, work hours, screen time, relationships, and work.

Susan's style is

Direct
Holistic
Solution-oriented

Insurance carriers Susan accepts

Aetna
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Cigna
Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey
Oscar
Oxford
Quest Behavioral Health
United Healthcare

More about Susan

MA (Master of Arts) at Northeastern Illinois University
License type: LMFT (Licensed Marriage/Family Therapist) (Illinois)
Gender: Cisgender Female
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Languages: English
Works with: Adults and Seniors
More specialties: Substance Use / Addiction, Family Issues, Stress, Grief, Loss, and Relationship Issues
Modalities: Psychodynamic, Gottman Method / Gottman Couples, Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment Based, Positive Psychology, Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Strength-Based, and Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS)

Location

939 West North Avenue Ste 750
Chicago, IL 60642