Social Workers - Countryside, IL

"Laura is a kind, empathetic, and knowledgable therapist. She’s a really good listener, offers good ideas on how to better manage the hills and valleys of life, is honest, professional, funny, and patient. She’s an authentic, whole-hearted person who I honestly feel always saw the true, kind, honest, loving person I was and am. She helped me learn how to talk to myself kinder, be more accountable, how to believe in myself, how to advocate for myself and how to adapt to challenges, stress, and anxiety in healthier ways. She helped me create habits that are more reliable, consistent, and healthier and how to appropriately use realistic coping skills during the bumpy times in an independent fashion that best matched my personality and strengths. It was always a collaborative approach with her and she knew just how much to push, and when to be gentler. She seemed to always know the exact thing to say to to help me understand what I had or was going thru, change what I could, and accept and adapt to what I had no control over. She was always flexible, communicated well, gave creative ideas, and seemed to genuinely care about my well-being. I truly believe that she wants the best for all of her clients-past, present, and future and authentically gives all she can to help them grow. She helped me see past my limitations, fears, mistakes and struggles so that I could embrace the difficult, change, and transform, helping me create the life as I wished and dreamed it to be. I was always a kind, loving, gentle, empathetic, well-meaninged, service-oriented, honest and passionate person who tried the best I could with what I had, and others always saw this, but I tended to get stuck on my flaws, was hard on myself, had a lot of self-doubt, and struggled with follow-thru and consistency. The reliable and consistent results, understanding, longer lasting joy, happiness, success, and freedom just always seemed to be just out of reach. Something seemed to always knock me down, just as I was or almost there but she taught me how to never give up. Thanks to her I have become the authentic, resilient, reflective, successful, joyous and independent person that I am today. Even at times when I wanted to give up, she didn’t give up on me, she kept pushing and guiding me in the right direction. I will forever be grateful for the time, strength and patience she gave me and I hope in time I can do the same for others as she once did for me."

"Mr. Barry is always available with a great perspective on many situations that people encounter personally and professionally. "