First, give Center Peace a call or text at 630-465-3374 to set up a consultation. From there, one of the therapists will answer all your questions and you get to decide if it’s a fit. Easy as that!

There will be an initial form you will fill out before your first appointment letting your therapist know things like Mental health history for you and your family. The first in person (or virtual) appointment will be your time to use how you’d like. Your therapist will remain curious but won’t inundate you with questions.

A therapist can help you gain clarity into patterns of behavior that might be causing problems for you or someone you love. Therapists often create a supportive, nonjudgmental environment to express feelings of frustration, sadness, grief, anger, worry and yes, JOY too. A therapist is someone who has the skills and capacity to listen, guide and give different perspectives to assist in personal changes you are ready to make.

 A Psychologist cannot prescribe medication in most states, do provide therapy and can also conduct formal psychological testing like ADHD assessments and personality tests.

A Psychiatrist CAN prescribe medication yet typically don’t engage in a 55 min therapy session with their clients.

A therapist is a master’s level clinician that engages in talk therapy for close to an hour weekly, biweekly or monthly. They often refer their clients to a psychiatrist or psychologist to partner with weekly therapy.

The most commonly used evidence-based therapies used are- Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Acceptance Based Therapy (ACT), Psychodynamic Process Therapy ( a focus on the subconscious and the past events), Mindfulness based therapy (includes mind/body treatment helpful for Chronic pain) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT).

CBT stands for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It’s a common treatment which focuses on understanding your thoughts and how those thoughts affect your feelings and thus your behaviors. Think of it as a triangle of thoughts, feelings and behaviors that just form a pattern. When we recognize the pattern and can interrupt it with different coping strategies, we tend to feel better.

You will know if you feel a sense of relief after meeting with your therapist. We do encourage, however, to keep the work going in between sessions.

There are significant differences between clinical depression and feeling sad. Depression is marked by several things such as not wanting to engage in activities that used to be enjoyable, sleep and appetite changes, feeling hopeless about the future and low self-esteem.

Generalized Anxiety is the constant feeling something ‘bad’ is going to happen, trouble relaxing or sitting still, feeling on edge, becoming easily annoyed or irritable. Panic is feeling one or more of those things all at the same time and more intensely.

Yes, we do work with childhood trauma.

Of course you can. But AI can only take you so far. Therapists have been trained for many years to catch the nuance of a person’s emotions and pick up on subtleties which AI simply cannot. This plus more makes up the therapeutic relationship and THAT relationship is what is essential for healing.

You can do both! Some clients will come in for most sessions but due to a busy schedule, might engage in a virtual session from home one week. There’s lots of flexibility.