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Downers Grove Counseling and Wellness
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Therapy for Children and Adolescents, Adults, Couples and Families
Our Therapists
Our strength lies in the expertise, warmth, and compassion of our dedicated team. At Downers Grove Counseling and Wellness, we are proud to serve the western suburbs of Chicago (including DuPage, Cook and Will counties) with in-person care, as well as provide telehealth to all Illinois residents.
We look forward to offering you authentic and effective therapy services and to helping you find wellness through collaboration, empathy and evidence-based practices. Find a professional, licensed in-person or virtual therapist who will be the perfect fit for your mental health journey.
Mary "Lucy" Nolan, LCSW
Therapist | EMDR Practitioner
Drawing from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and EMDR, Lucy's therapeutic approach is engaging, holistic, and personalized. She excels at empowering you to deepen your understanding of yourself, establish healthy boundaries, and navigate life with resilience and confidence.
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Providing a nurturing environment for adolescents, adults, and couples facing anxiety and panic disorders, school issues, work stress, parenting concerns, life transitions, depression, and loss, Lucy's solutions-focused approach promotes clarity and goal-setting and aids you in creating strategies to overcome life's challenges successfully.
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Holding certification as a Clinical Trauma Professional and trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Lucy offers specialized care for trauma survivors. She skillfully addresses the wounds of relational trauma while helping you take meaningful steps forward.
Lucy approaches her work with profound empathy and views it as an honor to accompany you on your unique path to fulfillment, healing, and purpose.​​​​
Anisa Pasho, LPC, NCC
Therapist | EMDR Practitioner
Anisa’s therapeutic approach is humanistic and trauma-informed, grounded in a kind, direct, and growth-oriented style. She compassionately and practically supports you through life’s most difficult challenges, fostering resilience, self-acceptance, and renewed emotional clarity.
With 15 years of experience and training in EMDR, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Somatic Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Play Therapy, and Solution-Focused approaches, Anisa often works with children, adolescents, adults, and couples. Her sessions are interactive and client-centered, guided by deep respect for your capacity to heal, improve your circumstances, and flourish in everyday life.
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As a certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Anisa offers specialized care for those navigating identity and self-image, anxiety and panic attacks, grief and loss, trauma and PTSD, and family and parenting challenges. Holding two master’s degrees, she brings a nuanced understanding of behavior, identity, and emotional patterns, helping you to build confidence and develop healthier ways of thinking and relating. She also welcomes spiritual questions and intuitive experiences with openness and care.
Anisa offers therapy in English, Español, and Shqip, and warmly welcomes clients from diverse cultural backgrounds into a space of inclusivity and healing. Approaching your concerns with curiosity and acceptance, she provides genuine guidance toward a more peaceful, fulfilling life.
Kevin Le, LSW, PEL
Therapist
Kevin's clinical practice is shaped by his vast experience as an educator, school social worker, and clinician in healthcare settings. Observant and warm, Kevin has worked with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families for over five years. Certified in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness-based approaches, he excels at helping you reduce symptoms while breaking the patterns that contribute to distress, fostering increased agency and improved well-being.
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Kevin is especially passionate about supporting teens, college students, young professionals, and veterans facing anxiety, ADD/ADHD, trauma and PTSD, executive functioning difficulties, relationship conflict, and stress related to school, work, and family life. His whole-person, culturally responsive approach considers the important roles of identity and environment in mental health.
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Kevin creates a safe, validating, and collaborative therapeutic home that fosters self-discovery, builds resilience through thoughtful problem-solving, and supports lasting personal growth and deeper meaning. His years of experience facilitating mental health workshops further strengthen his ability to integrate theory into effective, real-world progress.
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Grounded in a calm, thoughtful, and pragmatic style, Kevin provides nuanced, evidence-based care that empowers you with practical coping strategies rooted in education, connection, and compassion.
Franca Corrado, LCSW
Clinical Supervisor | Therapist
Franca's experienced, down-to-earth therapeutic approach is collaborative and deeply relational, anchored in the belief that everyone deserves compassionate, effective care. Dedicated to addressing the core challenges that brought you to therapy, Franca uses a holistic and goal-oriented process that encourages introspection, growth, and change.
Creating a safe, warm, and respectful environment is essential to Franca's practice. Committed to gently challenging you to make measurable strides forward, Franca excels at helping adolescents, adults, families, and couples make decisions with confidence as they face uncertainty and change.
Holding advanced training in grief and loss, perinatal and postpartum support, trauma-informed care, as well as support for individuals and caregivers of loved ones facing health challenges, Franca brings an informed, empathic understanding to the unique complexities these transitions bring. ​Franca's extensive clinical counseling expertise includes ACT, CBT, and DBT approaches.
Whether you are facing depression, anxiety, emotional dysregulation, or desire healthier, more fulfilling relationships, Franca will provide you with a steady space for healing as she actively guides you towards resolving your concerns.
Trina Lewis, LSW
Therapist | EMDR Practitioner
Trina's seasoned approach blends warmth, empathy, and curiosity with a commitment to helping you solve your most difficult problems with confidence and authenticity. Using a holistic and goal-oriented process, Trina engages you on a collaborative, introspective journey towards meaningful inner growth.
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Trina specializes in guiding adolescents, adults, and couples toward healing from trauma, identity and self-esteem, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and loss. Trina utilizes EMDR because of the power it has to quickly help you heal from past pain and strengthen your today.
Trina holds certification in Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, EMDR, and Somatic Therapy and takes an integrative, whole-person, and multicultural approach uniquely informed by her own diverse cultural experiences and world travels.
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Trina thrives on challenging and supporting you to overcome your fears and barriers by providing immediate coping skills and helping you gain insight into the root of your problems. Trina assists you in moving forward - empowering you to live a more authentic life with integrity, peace, and purpose. ​
Nadia Hallak, LPC
Therapist | EMDR Practitioner
With over ten meaningful years of experience helping individuals and couples heal and thrive, Nadia offers a compassionate, results-oriented approach grounded in evidence-based care. Her therapeutic style is warm, non-judgmental, and open, empowering you to explore your worries and lean into the best version of yourself across family, career, and relationships.
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Nadia’s approachable and straightforward demeanor creates a supportive, collaborative space where your voice matters and your goals drive the process. From processing difficult emotions to building effective coping skills, she offers steady guidance grounded in cultural humility, strengths-based care, and compassionate insight.
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Nadia specializes in helping clients navigate grief and loss, anxiety, depression, dating and relationships, reproductive challenges (including IVF, infertility, and pregnancy loss), acculturative stress, and issues related to self-esteem and body image. She uses approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), EMDR, and The Gottman Method for couples to create a personalized therapy experience tailored to their goals, timeline, and emotional needs.
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With fifteen years of experience as a psychology professor and doctoral research examining emotional dynamics within couples, Nadia brings a rich academic perspective to her therapeutic work. Her expertise helps couples strengthen emotional connection and build resilient, fulfilling partnerships. Nadia provides therapy services in English, Arabic, and Hebrew.
Nabela Ashraf, LSW
Therapist
Nabela's clinical practice is informed by specialized training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), trauma and PTSD, and mood disorders. Her approach is further strengthened by certification in women’s and perinatal mental health. Nabela excels at supporting you in deepening self-understanding, navigating transitions with confidence, and moving toward a life that more fully reflects your core values and goals.
She specializes in supporting individuals and couples who struggle to access or express emotions, including compartmentalizers and intellectualizers, as well as those who grew up with emotionally unavailable caregivers. She provides focused support for high achievers, expectant and new parents, and families navigating death, grief, and loss.
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Central to Nabela’s practice is a commitment to creating a space where you feel understood, accepted, and emotionally safe. She blends seasoned clinical experience with real-world practical guidance, empowering you to make levelheaded, positive changes. Attentive to the impact of culture, identity, and systemic factors on mental health, her approach is holistic, inclusive, and affirming.​
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Whether you feel stuck in the past or overwhelmed by life’s current complexities, Nabela offers a nurturing, collaborative environment to help you move forward with greater clarity, humor, and purpose. Nabela provides therapy in English, Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu.
Richard "Tyler" Cipriano, LCSW
Clinical Supervisor | Therapist
A seasoned professional of 10 years, Tyler's therapeutic approach is grounded in principles of warmth, insight, and self-efficacy. Tyler works with children and adolescents, adults, couples, and families.
Tyler excels at helping you strengthen your relationships, deepen your understanding of yourself, and find healing from trauma and PTSD, ADD/ADHD, anxiety, depression, family conflict, executive functioning concerns, and substance use.
Tyler holds advanced training in the following types of therapy: trauma-informed, attachment-based, child and family, The Gottman Method for couples, grief and loss, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Narrative Therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Solutions-Focused.
Tyler adopts an active role in helping you create strategies to overcome life's challenges and equips you with the tools needed to create implementable, authentic and lasting changes in your life. Tyler's down-to-earth and collaborative approach will help you take your desired steps forward with confidence.
Aarin Fisher, LCPC
Therapist
Aarin’s knowledgeable, genuine, and eclectic approach helps clients feel at ease from the very beginning, creating space to explore the root causes of their challenges and work toward meaningful, lasting change. Her warm, approachable style makes rapport-building and treatment planning feel intuitive.
She works with adolescents, adults, and couples to navigate stress and life transitions, strengthen coping skills, improve self-image, deepen self-understanding, and enhance connection and communication within close relationships.
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Aarin brings an active, down-to-earth presence to the therapeutic space and excels at supporting clients with generalized and social anxiety, ADHD, trauma and PTSD, grief and loss, and relationship conflict within couples and families. She is deeply committed to serving the LGBTQIA+ community (including kink and polyamorous-affirming care), young professionals, and providing culturally responsive, informed care for queer and BIPOC individuals.​​
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Aarin is trained and certified in several evidence-based modalities, including the Gottman Method for Couples Therapy, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), Psychodynamic Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Trauma Therapy.​​​
Titi Fadiya, LCSW
Therapist
Titi brings warmth, authenticity, and a perfectly timed sense of humor that only a seasoned clinician can offer. A dedicated advocate for your personal growth, she partners with you to build personalized, practical skills and to navigate life’s most difficult challenges with clarity, compassion, and care - always as a trusted teammate by your side.
Using a holistic, goal-oriented, and individualized approach, Titi creates a genuine and supportive space for children, adolescents, adults, and families to explore the root concerns that bring them to therapy. She is especially skilled at helping clients gain insight into behavioral patterns, strengthen communication skills, and cultivate self-compassion throughout the therapeutic process.
Titi holds advanced training in treating trauma and PTSD, ADHD, anxiety, depression, substance use, parent-child conflict, women’s and perinatal mental health concerns, and school-related challenges in children. She provides thoughtful assessments and individualized wellness plans tailored to each client’s unique goals, priorities, and pace.
Grounded in lived experience, practical strategies and tools, and evidence-based, deeply affirming care, Titi integrates psychodynamic therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and mindfulness practices to support clients on their path toward purpose, balance, and fulfillment.
Mara Coleman, LPC
Therapist | EMDR Practitioner
Mara believes that within the complexity of human nature lies a universal desire for optimal health, meaningful relationships, and the fulfillment of potential. She is dedicated to facilitating the growth necessary for you to achieve these goals, honoring your distinct wellness journey.
Mara specializes in treating anxiety, depression, spirituality, grief, complex trauma, body image concerns, dating and relationships, and couples counseling. Rooted in empathy, respect, and unconditional positive regard, Mara fosters a trustworthy and supportive therapeutic environment throughout the counseling process.
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Mara brings extensive experience in addressing mental health concerns for adults, teens, children, and couples from diverse cultural backgrounds. She is also deeply committed to LGBTQIA+ affirmative therapeutic practices. Guided by a passion for holistic healing, Mara uses an integrative approach to meet the unique needs of every client.
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Her qualifications include certification in EMDR and Level 2 Gottman Couples Therapy. She has advanced training in Narrative Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, and mindfulness practices. Mara’s evidence-based approach empowers you with tools and strategies to create meaningful change and sustain long-term and authentic transformation. She is committed to making growth and healing accessible to all.
Amanie Salah, LPC, NCC
Clinical Supervisor | Therapist | ART Practitioner
Amanie’s therapeutic approach combines warmth, empathy, and attunement with a strong commitment to personal growth. She partners with you to address the challenges that bring you to therapy through a holistic, goal-oriented, and individualized process, fostering insight, self-reflection, and meaningful change.
Central to Amanie’s practice is supporting individuals impacted by injustice and marginalization, while empowering you to navigate life’s complexities with safety, dignity, and self-compassion. Fluent in Arabic and English, she creates an affirming and inclusive space for Latinx and LGBTQIA+ communities, as well as for anyone seeking to reclaim parts of their identity that may have been lost, hidden, or suppressed.
Amanie holds certifications in Somatic Therapy, Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), Relational-Cultural Therapy (RCT), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), along with advanced training in trauma-informed care, feminist therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), couples therapy, and Psychodynamic and depth-oriented approaches.
With years of experience, Amanie has found that the most impactful therapy comes from a practitioner who brings their full self into the work - embracing their unique identity, values, and quirks. She partners with clients in a collaborative process grounded in authenticity, trust, and hope.
Sherry Zhang, LSW
Therapist
Sherry views therapy as a true partnership and a powerful act of self-trust. Guided by curiosity, empathy, and a strong belief in the human capacity for healing, she helps children, teens, adults, and families transform challenges into sources of strength. She recognizes that therapies grounded in depth, insight, and meaning are uniquely effective in supporting the whole person and creating lasting, real-world change.
Through attentive listening and gentle guidance, Sherry is devoted to helping individuals ease emotional distress while developing skills for growth, resilience, and overall well-being. Her integrative approach blends expressive arts with psychodynamic and cognitive therapy techniques, offering practical tools to navigate emotions, reconnect with purpose and identity, and reclaim a sense of direction.
Sherry is certified in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Relational-Cultural Therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), solution-focused therapy, and somatic practices. She provides attuned, respectful, and deeply affirming care for students, parents, couples, LGBTQ+ individuals, and anyone navigating acculturative stress, career challenges, relationship dynamics, or major life transitions.​
Beyond the therapy room, Sherry leads restorative justice and gender-based violence prevention initiatives. She is also the Founder and Co-President of I-Planet International Center, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering international professionals. Sherry holds degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Pennsylvania and offers therapy in English and Mandarin.
Maryclare Beche, LPC
Therapist | EMDR Practitioner
Maryclare offers a deeply compassionate, attuned therapeutic space where clients feel truly seen, supported, and understood. Her seasoned approach is both empathic and affirming, grounded in a nuanced understanding of how trauma impacts the mind and body. She works collaboratively to help you move toward emotional safety, strengthen emotional regulation, and build lasting self-esteem.
As a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Maryclare specializes in working with clients navigating PTSD, experiences of sexual assault, and attachment-related challenges. Her integrative style blends EMDR, CBT, Internal Family Systems, and Solution-Focused Therapy with art and expressive modalities. She thoughtfully tailors each aspect of the therapeutic process to meet your unique needs, fostering healing, deeper connection, and growth.
Known for her warmth, insight, and curiosity, Maryclare builds relationships with clients as they deepen self-awareness, improve relationship dynamics, and create sustainable behavioral change. She brings a wealth of experience supporting adolescents, adults, and couples with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss, family dynamics, and life transitions, as well as helping children build confidence, social skills, and focus.
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Beyond her clinical work, Maryclare is an accomplished program designer whose mental health initiatives have been implemented internationally. Maryclare holds two master’s degrees and is dedicated to empowering you to move forward with authenticity, resilience, and a deep sense of pride in your personal growth and relationships.
Jenna Kraft, LCSW
Owner | Director | Therapist
For nearly 15 years, Jenna has been a trusted therapist, consultant, and clinical supervisor dedicated to helping you heal, grow, and thrive. As the founder of Downers Grove Counseling and Wellness, she leads the practice’s clinical operations and regularly contributes to mental health publications and community events as a speaker and writer. Jenna holds degrees from the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago.
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In the therapy room, Jenna works collaboratively and energetically with adolescents, adults, and couples to define values, clarify goals, and foster lasting change. She believes in an interactive, relational approach to care grounded in empathy, curiosity, and humor.
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Jenna brings deep insight and compassion to those navigating self-criticism, relationship conflict, perfectionism, and the impact of emotionally unavailable caregivers. She also supports individuals healing from religious trauma and those who want to feel more secure in who they are while learning how to set healthy boundaries with others.
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Certified in a range of therapeutic modalities, including Psychodynamic, Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), Emotionally-Focused, Narrative, Existential, Attachment-Based, and Trauma-Informed, Jenna adapts her approach to meet each person where they are.​ Her goal is to help you deepen self-understanding, amplify your voice, and harness your strengths, guiding you toward greater clarity, connection, and inner peace.
Keely Davis, BA
Intake Manager
As the dedicated Intake Manager at Downers Grove Counseling and Wellness, Keely serves as the initial point of contact for prospective clients. A master’s-level therapist in training, she holds deep respect for the courage it takes to seek help and is committed to making your entry into our therapy services seamless, supportive, and successful.
From the moment you reach out, Keely fosters a welcoming atmosphere of trust and ease. She’s here to answer any questions you may have about our approach, areas of specialization, our clinicians, or insurance, and will guide you through the intake process with clarity, compassion, and care.
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Genuinely passionate about helping others discover introspection and personal growth, Keely takes great care in thoughtfully matching each new client with a therapist who aligns with their unique needs, values, and goals. Her top priority is to ensure that your introduction to care is smooth, empowering, and lays the foundation for a therapeutic journey that exceeds your expectations.
