Unifying Therapy (2025)

24/10/2025

Unifying Therapy – Now Hiring Therapists for Our New Naperville Location!

Join a practice built on purpose and community.
Unifying Therapy is expanding into a new Naperville location and seeking compassionate, motivated therapists (LCSW, LCPC, LMFT, or LSW under supervision) to join our growing team.

We take care of the billing, credentialing with multiple insurance panels (including out-of-state), and all administrative tasks — so you can focus on what truly matters: your clients and your clinical work.

What We Offer:
• 🌿 Flexible schedule – design your workweek around your life
• 💬 Fair and transparent rates – equitable compensation that values your expertise
• 🧾 Full credentialing & billing support – we handle the insurance and paperwork
• 💗 Collaborative environment – join a team that values connection, authenticity, and professional growth
• 🌍 Community-centered mission – be part of a practice driven by advocacy, inclusion, and education

If you’re a therapist who believes in heart-centered, purpose-driven work and wants to grow within a supportive and flexible environment, we’d love to connect with you.

📍 Location: Naperville, IL (in-person & hybrid options available)
📧 To apply or learn more: unifyingtherapy@gmail.com| Ph: 630-881-1832| www.unifyingtherapy.com

25/09/2025

💜 Parents of children with medical or special needs carry so much love — and often so much on their shoulders. You deserve support, too.

A FREE guide just for parents:

🌿 Caring for Yourself While Caring for Your Child

Inside you’ll find gentle, practical ways to:
✨ Lower stress and find calm
✨ Care for your own well-being
✨ Find strength for the journey

👉 Free copy through the link in bio

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24/09/2025

🌿 Finding Hope as a Parent 🌿

As a mom of a child with medical needs, I’ve learned something important: sometimes there is no “reason.”
De novo changes happen randomly and unpredictably—there’s no pill, food, or action to blame.

If I keep asking why, I get lost in the loop of questions.
What keeps me moving forward isn’t answers—it’s hope and empathy!

✨ Hope that one day there will be a cure.
✨ Hope that children born with special needs will have brighter futures.
✨ Hope that joy and love can still live in our everyday lives.

Hope doesn’t erase the challenges, but it helps me breathe, love, and believe in tomorrow. 🌸

12/09/2025

📍 Exciting News — We Have a New Naperville Location!
1280 Iroquois Avenue, Naperville, IL 60563

🌿 Parent Support Group 🌿
Caring for a child with medical or developmental needs is full of love, but it can also feel overwhelming at times. You don’t have to carry it all on your own. 💜

✨ Join our Parent Support Group facilitated by Olena Burger, LCSW — licensed clinical therapist and parent with first-hand experience.

In this group, you’ll find:
✔ A safe, supportive space to share and connect
✔ Simple tools to manage stress, worry, and tough feelings
✔ Encouragement in rediscovering yourself beyond caregiving

📅 Meets weekly online + once a month in person at our new Naperville space

📩 Unifyingtherapy@gmail.com | 📞 (630) 881-1832

💜 You deserve a space where you feel supported, understood, and reminded that you matter too. 🌸

28/01/2025

Parents caring for their children’s medical or mental health needs often dedicate all their energy to coordinating schedules around these requirements. However, it is crucial for parents to also focus on their own needs and maintain a balanced nervous system.

For parents who feel overwhelmed by negative thoughts and emotions related to managing their child’s medical complications or navigating challenging life events, the EMD (Eye Movement Desensitization) and ASSYST (Acute Stress Syndrome Stabilization) approaches can offer quick relief. These methods help the nervous system return to a balanced state.

Both therapy approaches can be conducted online, and I often use them as adjunct therapy options. EMD and ASSYST follow specific protocols derived from EMDR, focusing on directly addressing the source of a distressing event.

For more information, please contact me directly at 630 251 2213 or via email at unifyingtherapy@gmail.com.

24/01/2025

I provide online therapy sessions for residents of Florida and in-person sessions for clients in Illinois!

EMD and ASSYST can assist you in managing anxiety related to recent problems in your life.

For more information, please schedule a phone consultation!

09/01/2025

If you have a recent negative experience and can’t let go of thinking about it, it consumes your day, making you feel out of place, and impacting your mood and productivity, then ASSYST AND EMD can help regulate the nervous system and deescalate the emotional and physical reactions.

EMDR targets a broader memory network connecting the dots of how past traumatic experiences take place in the “here and now”

11/03/2024

Every parent has hopes and dreams for their child, even if those dreams aren’t always openly expressed. Remaining flexible with our goals and allowing fluidity of modifications when parenting a child with a disability or special needs. This doesn’t mean expecting less of your child; it may mean adjusting expectations from what was envisioned

06/03/2023

✨ Problems related to self-esteem, confidence, isolation, and loneliness are very common in teens who seek therapy.⁣
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✨ In therapy sessions, I offer a variety of therapeutic modalities that are best suited to the teen’s particular problem. Most commonly, a combination of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). ⁣
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MBSR helps teens regulate emotions more effectively and approach problems with a calmer and more relaxed mind. Teenagers often get caught up in a negative thought cycle, and this can exacerbate the problem. Yoga and meditation can help reduce the intensity of heightened emotions and thoughts. ⁣
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Cognitive therapy helps teenagers detect automatic negative thoughts, feelings, body sensations, and behaviors that stem from a situation or event. Cognitive techniques help teens untangle those negative beliefs.⁣
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For example, the teen brings up insecurity or lack of confidence issues and says “When I walk alone in the hallway, people don't want to talk to me, and no one likes me”. A cognitive approach to therapy helps the teen interpret a disturbance differently so they no longer feel lonely, inadequate, and insecure. The teen after some exploration comes up with a thought “everyone walks alone in the hallway, my friends are just getting out of the classroom, and I can see who’s available and come up to a person first”

01/03/2023

✨ March is a month to celebrate the great profession of Social Work ✨⁣
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📝 Today I am choosing to reflect on the many positive contributions of the profession. ⁣
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✨ 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙨 𝙗𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 ✨⁣
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Before opening my private practice in January 2021, I helped adults and children with medical complications as a hospital social worker. My most memorable time was working with children on dialysis. What struck me the most was the incredible resilience of those kiddos with unique medical needs. I’ve learned so much from this experience; it helped me better myself in my journey with my son. I helped children and families overcome mental health and financial hurdles that prevented them from enjoying things that matter to them.⁣
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As a social worker at the Senior Agency, I helped older adults remain safe and independent in their homes. My most memorable moments were meeting some older folks and hearing their incredible life stories. I was mesmerized by their talents, life experiences, and the wisdom they’ve gained in their life journey. ⁣
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Having my private practice provided me with the most incredible opportunities. From my two years of internship as a school counselor and addiction counselor to my post-graduate professional experience, I have built a foundation to help my clients in private practice and provide them with the safe and non-judgmental space they need and break barriers that prevent them from thriving and moving toward more meaningful and fulfilling life they want to build for themselves.

27/02/2023

✨Coming Soon!✨

Online Support Group for Parents who Experience Burnout from Caring for their Children with Special Needs!

✨✨Please send me a Direct Message or email if you would like a copy of the brochure!

24/02/2023

𝙇𝙚𝙩'𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬 𝙝𝙞𝙜𝙝 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚!⁣
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High expectations often lead to a positive transition. I think bringing up an example from a personal situation can be helpful. During an IEP (Individualized Education Program) meeting, I felt my son could have gained more from setting the bar higher for his educational needs. While I agreed with many things the teachers had suggested, I explored what was possible for my son. ⁣
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𝙃𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙙𝙤𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙋𝘼𝘾𝙀𝙍’𝙨 “𝘼 𝙂𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝘽𝙚𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙙 𝙃𝙞𝙜𝙝 𝙎𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙡⁣
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✨ Research has shown that children have greater opportunities to succeed academically when parents exercise higher expectations with their children.⁣
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✨ Educators have a greater understanding of child's needs when families set high expectations.⁣
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✨ Children tend to do better in postsecondary education, employment, and financial self-sufficiency.⁣
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✨ Youth with disabilities who have more expected of them are more likely to live fully integrated lives and have a greater opportunity to strive toward their own hopes and dreams.⁣
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✨ Youth with high expectations may have more educational options and better-paying jobs that match their abilities and interests.⁣
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