Meet Our Affiliates
Jennifer Byrne
My approach to therapy is supporting you in exploring and understanding your story and history, and how it lives in your body, your mind, your emotions, and your present-day relationships with yourself and others. I work with trauma, anxiety, depression, life transitions, relationship challenges and problematic substance use. I incorporate mindfulness and somatic techniques and interventions and have specialized training in addictions and trauma. Whether you are experiencing significant distress in your life or want to explore ways to grow and step into your potential, I look forward to working with you.
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. I have over 20 years of experience as a clinician working with clients in a wide array of populations. I employ a variety of clinical approaches including somatic and mindfulness-based techniques, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing and use a trauma-informed lens. I also have training in experiential approaches. I work with couples and individuals.
Sara Solheim
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and have experience in working with both adults and adolescents with anxiety, depression, stress management issues and coping with trauma. I work from a multi-cultural, anti-racist/anti-oppression lens. All work with clients is trauma-informed and strengths-based. I have worked with high school students in managing a range of school-related issues including those who have been hospitalized and are re-integrating back into their lives. I have extensive experience working with individuals in the LGBTQIA+ community. Whether it is someone just starting to explore their gender and/or sexual identity, or someone who is navigating all that comes with living out and proud, I have worked with people all along their journeys to living their authentic selves. I am part of the Gender Affirming Clinicians Collaborative through Lurie's Children's Hospital and a member of Inclusive Therapists. I am a certified trauma and resilience therapist, and so, all my work comes from a trauma-informed lens. I also pull from CBT, mindfulness, narrative, bibliotherapy, and solution-focused modalities. I do not believe that one size fits most. I will work with you on the style that best works for you.
Jennifer Brandenberger
I am a Licensed Social Worker and a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor. My background includes working with children, adolescents and adults from an array of populations that experience depression, anxiety, relationship challenges, parenting demands, and problematic substance use. I provide therapeutic guidance that is individualized to fit your treatment needs and use different approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing. I look forward to working with you to restore balance and joy in life.
LaKeshia Carr
I am a licensed psychotherapist in both Illinois and Indiana. I am here to guide you through some of the challenges that you have or continue to encounter in life. I provide therapeutic techniques that are individualized to assist you accomplish your goals. I have years of experience helping people face Trauma, PTSD, Anxiety, depression, grief & loss, work/life balance and parenting difficulties. Together we can work through these issues to bring balance back in your life.
Juliet Bond
Juliet graduated from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana with a Master’s Degree in social work in 1996. She has a long history of serving individuals and the community in multiple systems. Immediately after graduating, she began working in foster care and adoption; ultimately walking away from a broken system whose goals are admirable but practices are faulty. In 2000, she passed the licensing requirements to achieve her LCSW, and in 2005, she founded her own non-profit feeding, housing, and providing school supplies and furniture to families across her community. This resulted in awards from Northwestern University, The Evanston Community Foundation, the city of Evanston, the University of Illinois, and a Daily Points of Light award. Juliet also fought and won a battle to unravel a history of sexist dress code practices in her local schools. This story is featured in the documentary, Nevertheless. She has also written and co-authored a series of children’s books and plays. Her written work focuses on multi-racial main characters who face challenges around adoption, foster care, bullying, and belonging.
As a daughter, a friend, a wife of over 25 years, and a co-parent of biological and foster children, she believes understanding the value of interdependence can be the key to a joyful life.