Individual Counseling Services

Seeking help during trying times shows courage and strength.

You’ve made a brave choice. Your commitment to seek counseling is the first step toward personal growth and fulfillment.

Counseling doesn’t represent a personal failure or weakness; it’s a healthy and self-caring way to work on yourself and learn better ways to handle life’s disruptions, difficulties, and stressors.

You can’t change your past. But you can change your present and future. You don’t need to feel stuck any longer. You can learn to determine how your life experiences will affect you. You can be in control.

Harness your strengths.

Individual Counseling Chicago

At Restorative Counseling, you’ll have a safe space to explore your life — to learn what works, what doesn’t, and why.

We’ll forge a strong, supportive, and collaborative working relationship. Our therapeutic alliance will prove instrumental in helping you achieve your goals.

You’ll learn how to process and express your emotions, deal with others, and cope with circumstances outside your control. In individual counseling, you’ll uncover your strengths and overcome life’s challenges.

Together, we can help you achieve lasting, positive outcomes.

Our goal is not to change YOU but to help you make the changes necessary to feel fulfilled.

At Restorative Counseling, we understand that change is difficult. Here’s how we will utilize our strength-based approach to help you:

  • Focusing on internal strengths and resources and less on weaknesses or shortcomings to make changing behaviors and improving your life easier.
  • Gaining an understanding of what is most important to you and your values to help determine what decisions are best for you.
  • Improving your resiliency.
  • Learning to develop realistic habits that will help you take care of yourself physically, socially, and emotionally.
  • Exploring challenging or painful experiences so you can move forward with a sense of hopefulness.
  • Protecting your independence, resilience, and ability to make choices for your overall wellbeing.

Meet our dedicated clinicians offering Individual Counseling

Stephanie Grunewald, PhD

I am dedicated to exploring the layers of shame, guilt, and fear that have prevented you from living the life you desire.

Read more about Stephanie.

Katie Jackson-Griffin, LCPC

I am passionate about guiding you to love yourself and build up your resilience to take on all of life’s challenges.

Jordan Meehan, LCSW

I provide a safe environment where you can develop insight into your experiences, behaviors, and relationships, as well as build healthy coping habits, self-care skills, and positive self-regard.

What to expect from the counseling journey

We create a unique counseling process that is tailored to each person’s strengths and experiences.

Counseling is meant to be a time of self-exploration and growth. Your clinician will tailor treatment to your specific needs based on your goals and what you would like to achieve. Counseling has the potential to be short-term or long-term based on your individual needs.

Sustained progress can be made in as few as 8 weekly sessions, but most people find that they need treatment for a minimum of several months. We encourage you to attend weekly sessions, as this allows you to establish a close working relationship with your clinician and to make progress more quickly. Our hope is for you to reach your goals sooner rather than later so that you can live the life you desire.

We will help you identify and build upon your strengths to make meaningful change.