Empowering Your Relationships
Chicago's Mental Health Counseling Group
We are a full-service group practice on the North Shore of Chicago. We work with all members of the family from the littlest one to the elders. Because we are experienced therapists working in one practice, we can guarantee you continuation and coordination of care.
Together, we will find solutions to your challenges.
Now Offering Telehealth Appointments
Feeling Anxious or Depressed?
With You All The Way
Services
From time-to-time, each of us struggles with personal challenges and we feel distressed, or stuck. The hardest step to take is admitting to ourself that we can’t solve these problems alone. That’s when it’s time to seek professional help from a skilled therapist who has the experience to guide us through a troubling time.
Well-Trained. Personable. Supportive.
Our Therapists
Terri A.
Ammirati
Owner & Founder, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor
Terri specializes in empowering clients to strengthen their relationships. She works with all aspects of relational distress and provides solution-focused therapy. She have integrated spiritual truths with contemporary psychological theories. Terri uses Gottman method couples therapy, an evidence-based approach that helps couples with all aspects of relationship issues.
Yvette
Metzger
Licensed Social Worker
Yvette brings over ten years of clinical experience and specializes in working with children, tweens, adolescents and adults. She is passionate about working families, and coaching parents with parent-child relationships. When working with individuals, she specializes in trauma, grief/loss, PTSD, behavioral difficulties, life transitions, relational distress and different aspects of anxiety and depression.
Mary
Santos
Licensed Social
Worker
Mary provides strength-based therapy and creative arts therapy in both English and Spanish. She specializes in working with children, adolescents, parents and adults. Mary is passionate about working with individuals around identity, relationships, self-esteem and self-expression.
Hiba
Moinuddin
Licensed Professional
Counselor
Hiba provides faith-based counseling, couples and family therapy. When providing individual therapy her experiences includes working with issues related to cultural assimilation, anxiety, situational depression, life transitions, women's' issues, grief, loss, PTSD and all aspects of relational distress.
Adolfo
Oropeza
Licensed Social
Worker
Adolfo is a bilingual Social Worker that specializes in working with teens, adults, and older adults. His expertise is in mood disorders and anxiety disorders, including depression, bipolar disorder, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. His lived-experience as a second generation Mexican immigrant gives him insight into cultural assimilation and struggles faced by the community. He is passionate about helping individuals overcome the stigma of mental illness and reach their potential.
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No More Waiting For Things To Get Better
When To Seek Help
- Are you feeling overwhelmed or ashamed and not sure where to begin?
- Are looking for a place where you will feel comfortable as you work through personal struggles?
- Do you have family members who would benefit from talking with a professional?
- Do you have a distressed relationship with your spouse or child?
- Are you in a relationship that is not struggling, but just “OK”? Do feel you are drifting apart?
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Our fees are reasonable and we accept most major insurance plans.
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In the 1980s, Dr. John Gottman established the “Love Lab,” where researchers discovered groundbreaking behaviors on the “Masters” and “Disasters” of relationships.
Terri Ammirati was fortunate to be trained directly by Dr. Gottman and his wife, Dr. Julie Gottman.
Subscribe now to receive Terri’s free e-book with “Love Lab” findings.