Therapy for High-Capacity Women in Chicago
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Burnout & Overfunctioning
When you’re the one who always holds it together, burnout doesn’t always look like collapse—it looks like depletion you keep functioning through. This work focuses on the patterns of over-responsibility, emotional labor, and self-abandonment that make rest feel out of reach and “enough” feel impossible.
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Trauma & Nervous System Healing
Sometimes what feels like anxiety, overthinking, or chronic stress is a nervous system that learned to stay on the move in order to stay safe. For many high-capacity people, overfunctioning and constant urgency are not personality traits, but adaptations. This work helps you understand how those patterns live in your body now—shaping how you respond, relate, and protect yourself, even when the original conditions have changed.
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Life Transitions & Identity Shifts
There are moments when the life you built stops matching who you are becoming. Whether it’s divorce, career change, parenthood, or perimenopause, this work supports you in the disorientation of the threshold—when an old identity is no longer fully true, but the next one hasn’t yet taken shape.
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Political Anxiety & Existential Overwhelm
For those carrying the weight of the world alongside their own life. This work creates space for grief, fear, anger, and moral distress—while helping you stay connected to meaning, agency, and a way of being in the world that doesn’t require emotional shutdown to survive.
You’re not falling apart. You’re just done holding it together.
The women I work with are often:
The dependable one. The emotional anchor. The high achiever who "handles it." The person others rely on when things fall apart. The one who is tired in a way that sleep doesn't fix.
From the outside: capable, functional, impressive.
From the inside: increasingly depleted.
What Brings You Here:
You might be noticing things like:
"I'm exhausted, but nothing is actually that bad."
"I can't tell if I'm burned out, bored, or bad at adulting."
"Everyone depends on me and I don't know how to stop saying yes."
"I feel resentful but can’t give up control."
"I used to feel driven. Now I mostly feel tired."
"I don't know what I want anymore — just what I'm supposed to do next."
What’s Actually Going On:
High-capacity women are often not struggling because they're fragile. They're struggling because they've become adapted — to being the reliable one, to anticipating other people's needs, to holding emotional and logistical weight without support, to functioning through stress instead of being supported in it, to earning safety through usefulness.
Over time, this can turn into burnout, anxiety, resentment, numbness — or all of the above.
Not because something is wrong with you. Because something has been required of you for too long.
How it works:
What we might work on
Therapy with me often includes work around burnout and chronic stress, overfunctioning and people-pleasing, trauma and attachment patterns, emotional labor and relational imbalance, perfectionism and internal pressure, life transitions that destabilize identity, career exhaustion or misalignment, difficulty resting without guilt or anxiety, and grief for versions of life that no longer fit.
But this is not therapy for:
"How do I optimize my schedule?"
"How do I become more productive and still feel okay?"
"How do I keep my life exactly the same but feel better in it?"
We're not trying to help you tolerate a life that drains you more efficiently. We're paying attention to what it costs you to keep it going this way.
Rates + Insurance
Although I provide telehealth, my licenses limit me to only seeing clients located in Illinois and Louisiana at the time of their session.
Individual therapy:
Initial intake session: $225
55-minute therapy sessions: $175
Insurance
I am in-network with BCBS PPO and Blue Choice PPO plans.
Depending on your current health insurance provider or employee benefit plan, it is possible for services to be covered in full or in part. Please contact your provider to verify your benefits. I can provide an itemized “superbill” for reimbursement purposes if you are out-of-network. If you choose to use in-or out-of-network benefits, please note the following:
I will be required to give and submit a clinical diagnosis to your insurance provider.
The insurance provider will determine if the diagnosis meets medical necessity, which is required for services to be covered.
The insurance provider may dictate number/length of sessions, telehealth versus in-person, and/or which treatment modalities and interventions are allowed.
Let’s get started.
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GOOD FAITH ESTIMATE
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You have the right to receive a “Good Faith Estimate” explaining how much your medical care will cost
Under the law, health care providers need to give patients who don’t have insurance or who are not using insurance an estimate of the bill for medical items and services.
You have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate for the total expected cost of any non-emergency items or services. This includes related costs like medical tests, prescription drugs, equipment, and hospital fees.
Make sure your health care provider gives you a Good Faith Estimate in writing at least 1 business day before your medical service or item. You can also ask your health care provider, and any other provider you choose, for a Good Faith Estimate before you schedule an item or service.
If you receive a bill that is at least $400 more than your Good Faith Estimate, you can dispute the bill.
Make sure to save a copy or picture of your Good Faith Estimate. For questions or more information about your right to a Good Faith Estimate, visit www.cms.gov/nosurprises