Balanced Awakening, P.C.

Balanced Awakening, P.C. Psychotherapists empowering women, couples, and team girls! Balanced Awakening, P.C.

is a psychotherapy niche practice for women run by Hannah Yang, Psy.D., a Licensed Clinical Psychologist.

04/06/2026

Strong feelings toward your therapist can feel confusing — sometimes even uncomfortable or overwhelming.

But these experiences are often part of the work.

The therapeutic relationship can bring up earlier attachment patterns — ways of relating that were shaped long before therapy. When these patterns surface, they create an opportunity to understand them, work with them, and move beyond the limitations they may have created.

What comes up in your relationship with your therapist isn’t something to push away. It can be something meaningful to explore.

If this resonates, we created a course inside the Balanced Awakening Collective:

Understanding Attachment to Your Therapist
A 4-module guide to help you make sense of strong feelings in therapy, understand where they come from, and navigate them with more clarity and steadiness.

Learn more here:
https://www.balancedawakening.com/collective

04/03/2026

Therapy clients — we’re curious:

What’s one comfort item you wish every therapist had in their office?

Whether it’s something cozy, grounding, or just a small detail that helps you feel more at ease, we’d love to hear what makes a space feel supportive to you.

At Balanced Awakening, we’re always thinking about how to create spaces that feel safe, comfortable, and human.

04/01/2026

Growth rarely happens all at once.

More often, it happens through small choices, quiet moments of awareness, and tiny shifts in how we respond to ourselves and the world around us.
Over time, those small shifts can lead to meaningful change.

Small shifts create big change.

What’s one small shift you’re working on right now?




03/30/2026

Have you heard of the Health Triangle?

The Health Triangle is a simple tool used in therapy to think about wellbeing across three areas of life: mental, physical, and social health.
When we’re over- or under-stimulated in one of these areas, our overall sense of balance can be affected.

One way to explore this for yourself is by drawing your own triangle and listing small activities that support each side — including options that work on lower-energy days.

The goal isn’t perfection, but creating small, sustainable ways to support your wellbeing.

Nicole Pratl, MSW (the voice behind the video) offers therapy through Balanced Awakening and is currently accepting clients in Chicago.

Learn more:
https://balancedawakening.com/nicole-pratl-msw

03/27/2026

What clients think therapists are doing between sessions:
writing notes.

What’s actually happening sometimes:
opening a window for fresh air, lying down for a minute, playing with fidget toys, and resetting before the next session.

Therapists are human too, and those small moments of pause help us stay grounded and present for the work.

Erica Hartmus, LPC offers telehealth therapy and is currently accepting new clients in Chicago.

Learn more:
https://balancedawakening.com/erica-hartmus-lpc

03/25/2026

“I am enough, just the way I am.”

This movement piece by Isa Mulcahy, LCPC — set to “Breath” by Joy Soul — reflects the heart of embodied healing: worth that isn’t earned, produced, or perfected.

With flaws.
With insecurities.
With strengths, traumas, triumphs.
Still worthy.

At Balanced Awakening, we believe healing includes the body. Through somatic and relational therapy, Isa supports clients in reconnecting with their inherent enoughness — not despite their story, but including it.

Isa is currently accepting new clients in Chicago.
Learn more here: https://balancedawakening.com/isabel-mulcahy-lcpc

03/23/2026

Why do relationship patterns repeat?

Nicole Pratl, MSW is currently training in Imago Relationship Therapy, a couples therapy approach that explores how early caregiving experiences shape the ways we give and receive love later in life.

When we’re young, our brains absorb messages about care, safety, and connection — both the helpful experiences and the painful ones. Many of these patterns become tucked into our subconscious, quietly influencing how we show up in adult relationships.

Imago therapy helps couples slow down and bring awareness to these patterns so they can move toward deeper understanding, empathy, and repair.
Nicole is currently accepting couples for couples therapy in Chicago.

Learn more:
https://balancedawakening.com/nicole-pratl-msw

03/20/2026

POV: you askPOV: You asked for a therapist and got someone who averages 5 hours of daily screen time.

Therapists are humans too — navigating the same digital world as everyone else.

What matters most in therapy isn’t perfection. It’s presence, curiosity, and a willingness to sit with what’s real.

Erica Hartmus, LPC offers telehealth therapy and is currently accepting new clients in Chicago.

Learn more:
https://balancedawakening.com/erica-hartmus-lpc

03/18/2026

Some days call for progress.

Other days call for a pause.

Taking a moment to breathe isn’t falling behind — it’s giving your mind and body the space they need to reset.

Healing rarely happens all at once. It often begins with a simple pause.

Pause.
Breathe.
Begin again.




03/13/2026

POV: It’s a telehealth appointment.

One of the things many clients appreciate about telehealth is the ability to show up as you are — in your own space, in your own chair, sometimes even a little more comfortable than you would be in an office.

Therapy doesn’t have to look rigid to be meaningful. What matters most is the connection, the conversation, and the space to be honest with yourself.
Erica Hartmus, LPC offers telehealth therapy and is currently accepting new clients in Chicago.

Learn more:
https://balancedawakening.com/erica-hartmus-lpc

03/11/2026

Sometimes it feels like everyone else is moving faster, achieving more, figuring things out sooner.

But growth doesn’t follow someone else’s timeline.

Healing, change, and self-understanding happen in their own rhythm—often quietly, beneath the surface.

If you’ve been feeling behind lately, take a breath. You might be exactly where you need to be.

You’re not behind. You’re becoming.

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4043 N Ravenswood, 302
Chicago, IL
60613

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Monday 8am - 8pm
Tuesday 12pm - 8pm
Wednesday 8am - 9pm
Thursday 8am - 8pm
Friday 8am - 6pm
Saturday 8am - 3pm

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Balanced Awakening, P.C. is a psychotherapy practice specializing in the empowerment of women and women + their partners and families. Run by Hannah Sido, Psy.D., a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, the lively practice now has several talented psychologists to help you live the best life on your terms. We have offices in Andersonville and Lakeview/North Center and can also see you for online therapy if you live in Illinois. We can help you make changes to live life less driven by anxiety and unwanted thoughts/emotions and more driven by joy, passion, and whatever floats your boat.