Important Updates
- --Lakeview Therapy Group provides online Telehealth to all clients and potential new clients as we navigate through COVID-19.
- --Here is a link to the most recent Telehealth information from BCBSIL: BCBSIL Telehealth Information
- --Lakeview Therapy Group will continue to provide Telehealth sessions until 12/31/ 2020, and may continue into 2021.
Vanessa Bradden, LMFT
For more than 15 years, Vanessa has had the privilege of working with individuals, couples, and families facing a wide range of issues that keep them feeling stuck and unfulfilled. As a marriage and family therapist, Vanessa believes that problems are best understood and addressed in the context of relationships. Her approach to therapy is holistic. Vanessa sees her clients as having innate strengths that have helped them solve problems in the past. Her work with clients focuses on cultivating strengths and developing new skills. Vanessa prioritizes her clients concerns and strives to provide a safe space for them to examine difficult emotions, create new experiences, and restore a sense of wellness to their lives.
Vanessa's clinical experience and interests include:
Vanessa's clinical experience and interests include:
- Depression and anxiety
- Major life transitions —marriage, separation, divorce, reconciliation, becoming parents, co-parenting, job loss, moving
- Co-dependency, identity, and self-esteem issues
- Grief and loss
- Sibling loss
- Pregnancy loss
- Infertility
- Postpartum depression/anxiety and OCD, and perinatal mood disorders
- Trauma and PTSD
- Relationship issues —ADHD, infidelity, bipolar disorder, premarital counseling, parenting issues, and marital distress
Renata Klabacha, LMFT
Renata is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 10 years of experience providing psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and young adults facing a variety of mental health issues. She has worked in residential, inpatient and outpatient settings. Renata thrives on assisting clients toward lasting change by developing various skills and coping strategies, improving relationships, and empowering their lives. She is also fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.
Renata is passionate about the struggles and stressors of parenting. She knows from personal experience the challenges that every parent faces and enjoys aiding parents on building a more consistent and effective parenting style; one that is unique and individualized to each family. As a former teacher, Renata utilizes her experience to create a curriculum for a parenting support-group that aims to explore a range of challenges that parents often face.
Renata’s clinical experience and interests include:
Renata is passionate about the struggles and stressors of parenting. She knows from personal experience the challenges that every parent faces and enjoys aiding parents on building a more consistent and effective parenting style; one that is unique and individualized to each family. As a former teacher, Renata utilizes her experience to create a curriculum for a parenting support-group that aims to explore a range of challenges that parents often face.
Renata’s clinical experience and interests include:
- Children, adolescents, and young adults
- Play therapy
- Families —attachment, behavioral issues, poor communication, and generational conflicts
- Major life transitions —entering adulthood, marriage, separation, divorce, reconciliation, becoming parents,and co-parenting
- Parenting support groups
- Trauma and PTSD
- Depression and anxiety
- Crisis management
- Stress management and self-care
- Relationship issues —ADHD, life adjustments, infidelity, premarital counseling, parenting issues, and marital distress
- Grief and loss
Amy Mourad, ATT
Amy is an Associate Team Therapist and a recent graduate of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology where she received her master’s degree in forensic psychology. Although Amy has a forensic focus, she has worked across a variety of settings including an inpatient psychiatric hospital, rehabilitative clinic, and within the correctional system. Amy began her career in mental health to learn how to navigate the paths of life; this has turned into a passion for helping others find what they need to thrive on their own journeys. Amy believes in working in partnership with her clients and utilizing their strengths to achieve their goals.
Amy’s clinical experience and interests include:
Amy’s clinical experience and interests include:
- Children, adolescents and families
- Depression and anxiety
- Major life transitions
- Self-esteem
- Play therapy
- Trauma and PTSD
- Crisis management
- Stress management and self-care
- Mood disorders and personality disorders
- Multi-cultural populations
