Comprehensive mental health services in Naperville, IL. Therapy, assessment, and psychiatry for children and adults at Tailwinds Psychology.

SunCloud Health’s Naperville center provides outpatient, Partial Hospitalization (PHP), Intensive Outpatient (IOP), and Virtual IOP programs for individuals facing depression, anxiety, trauma, OCD, eating disorders, addictions, and co-occurring conditions. Our multidisciplinary team uses evidence-based therapies including DBT, CBT, ACT, and ERP, alongside psychiatric support such as TMS and Spravato for treatment-resistant depression. With HAES-informed care, family therapy, and inclusive care, we deliver trusted treatment to the western suburbs of Chicago. Most insurance is accepted.

I see therapy as a partnership wherein my role is to help you to move towards the life you want to live. I am a strong believer in the power of focusing on one’s values as a tool to move you forward in life. It has been my experience that once people begin to make choices based on their values versus buying into their critical and self-doubting thoughts/trying to avoid feelings they do not want to have, that they are able to move quickly into a state of self-respect and enjoy a meaningful life. My role is to help facilitate your self-awareness to help to you identify what you value, what is currently working in your life, and what is getting in the way of you living the kind of life you want to live. My therapeutic style is a mixture of ACT, DBT, and CBT (for more details on what these are and how they differ, please see my article on this topic). I consider myself primarily to be an Acceptance and Commitment (ACT) based therapist. This means that I focus on mindfulness, assisting you with allowing your emotions to be present, and changing the relationship you have with your unhelpful thoughts in service of you living a value-laden life. When needed I use DBT skills to assist people with crisis management skills as well as interpersonal effectiveness. I use CBT to assist in the determination of core beliefs (our most basic beliefs about ourselves, others, and the world around us) as well as to assist people in shifting their perspective via reframing (seeing other possibilities in how to look at a situation). I have been blessed with tremendous opportunities to become highly skilled in the use of these three areas. In the past I worked for a community mental health agency that focused primarily on CBT. While there I worked with a variety of mental health issues including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and eating disorders. Since then I have worked at a juvenile detention center and a community agency. More recently I have worked for over four years at Linden Oaks Hospital in Naperville in their General Mental Health outpatient program as a clinical therapist serving a wide array of mental health challenges. This program was heavily DBT based. For the past year I have been in the Adult Anxiety program which is exclusively an ACT based program.

Banyan Chicago is located in Downtown Naperville, which is recognized as one of the most popular destinations in the Midwest. Banyan Chicago offers both PHP and IOP for substance use disorders. This outpatient program works well for patients adjusting back into society with a program that fits with their work or school schedules. Patients can enjoy supervised outings to nearby parks, roller-skating, ice skating, centennial beach, Navy Pier, Zoo, museums, and more.

Little A's Healing focuses on women, and women’s health and believe that therapy should be a place where you feel seen, understood and supported. Having a baby is a rewarding and joyful experience but it can also be very scary, lonely and emotionally draining. If you are trying to conceive, pregnant, just had your third baby or suffered a loss, you might need support from a therapist who believes in the unique needs of moms.