Supportive – Positive Regard Therapy https://prt.sixminuteslate.com LGBTQ+ Therapy in Chicago & Illinois Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:15:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://prt.sixminuteslate.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/PRT-Favicon-150x150.webp Supportive – Positive Regard Therapy https://prt.sixminuteslate.com 32 32 Clare Cinelli, BA https://prt.sixminuteslate.com/Therapists/clare-cinelli-ba/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:02:46 +0000 https://prt.sixminuteslate.com/?post_type=therapists&p=1867 I help teens, adults, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community feel more confident, connected, and in control of their lives. My affirming, sex-positive approach supports clients navigating anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, life transitions, relationship concerns, and identity exploration through a body-neutral lens. Guided by your needs and goals, I create space to explore your story without judgment. Together, we will honor your pace and develop practical tools that support both emotional and physical well-being.

Therapy is a partnership. I create a welcoming, trusting environment where your experiences and values guide the process. I encourage curiosity, offer thoughtful challenges, and help you build on your unique strengths. Our work integrates mind-body awareness to strengthen overall balance and resilience.

I offer an affirming space for all clients, including those in polyamorous and non-monogamous relationships. My goal is to help you build self-compassion, strengthen relationships, and make meaningful, lasting changes. Whether you are new to therapy or returning, your whole self is welcome and your goals are at the heart of our work.

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Jordan Rahm, BA https://prt.sixminuteslate.com/Therapists/jordan-rahm-ba/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:01:34 +0000 https://prt.sixminuteslate.com/?post_type=therapists&p=1865 I work with teens, adults, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community who are navigating bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression, identity questions, life transitions and relationship concerns. As a queer therapist, I know the power of being fully seen in a safe and affirming space. I am passionate about supporting young adults and queer clients in building and maintaining lives that feel authentic and aligned with their values. My therapeutic approach is grounded in connection, collaboration, and compassion, helping you build the skills and confidence to face life with courage and self-compassion.

In our sessions you can expect openness, curiosity, and room for humor. I will meet you where you are, challenge you when it supports growth, and always honor your pace. Whether you are seeking support as an individual or with a partner, I help you uncover strengths, build coping tools, and move through life with greater clarity and resilience.

Therapy can help you better understand yourself, strengthen relationships, and create lasting change. My goal is for you to leave sessions feeling supported, seen, and equipped with tools to face challenges. Whether this is your first time in therapy or you are returning, I offer a space where your whole self is welcome, and your goals are at the center.

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Paige Harper, LPC https://prt.sixminuteslate.com/Therapists/paige-harper-lpc/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:56:36 +0000 https://prt.sixminuteslate.com/?post_type=therapists&p=1857 You deserve a space to be heard, seen, and accepted. I enjoy working with clients dealing with relationship issues, anxiety, OCD, adjustment, religious trauma, and with members of the LGBTQIA+ community. I welcome the opportunity to work with individuals, teens, and children. My history working in community health with children experiencing behavioral issues and developmental disorders continues to inform my practice as a clinician.

I work from an integrated narrative, person-centered, individual and systems perspective. I believe in the value of meeting you where you are with compassion. Therapy is a personal journey that is unique to each of us. Through our therapeutic relationship, my goal is to facilitate exploration of self, healing, and contexts that empower or limit you.

Starting to heal can feel like a challenging mountain to climb, you are not alone in this. Together, we can create your map of healing. With each step towards your goals we will collaborate, celebrate, and reflect together in a supportive space.

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Sam Milstone, LPC https://prt.sixminuteslate.com/Therapists/sam-milstone-lpc/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:54:19 +0000 https://prt.sixminuteslate.com/?post_type=therapists&p=1853 Suffering is an ineradicable part of life.

I am certain you have already found things to do to make your suffering easier to deal with, and I aim to provide a harm-reductive approach to refine these solutions to better serve you. I believe that no matter how long we spend together, you will always be the expert when it comes to yourself. Your treatment will rely on this expertise as a tool to carve your path toward living a more empowered and meaningful life—whatever that means to you. I am not interested in providing you with any naive advice, but instead, listening and supporting you as we explore possible solutions and research-backed strategies to make your life easier to live.

My practice with teens and adults often uses the tenets of geek therapy to employ my client’s hobbies and interests as safe context for their uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. My approach is client-centered, solution-focused, and feminist in its critical examination of our constructed lives and relationships. To find reasonable solutions to our problems, I find it important to contextualize our struggles within the oppressive weight of our cultural climate. I enjoy working with fellow LGBTQIA+ people and couples to celebrate our identities whether it be our queer sexuality, gender-queerness, ethnic identity, mental diagnoses, or neurodivergence.

Outside of counseling, I am a proud Chicagoan transplant, who loves woodworking, guitar, movies, my dog, and prepping for one of my Dungeons & Dragons campaigns when I am not in class pursuing a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Adler University.

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Dana Wierzbicki, LPC https://prt.sixminuteslate.com/Therapists/dana-wierzbicki-lpc/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:53:06 +0000 https://prt.sixminuteslate.com/?post_type=therapists&p=1851 To me, the therapeutic relationship is what’s at the heart of a meaningful experience in therapy– a relationship where clients feel equally supported and respected whether they’re talking about a proud achievement, a deep regret, or a fleeting moment. I think every person can relate to hiding parts of ourselves, our thoughts, and our lives out of a fear of being judged. When we can trust that someone will hear our words with care and understanding, that trust is what gives us the freedom to explore those things that we often hesitate to express.

As a therapist, I work to build that kind of trusting relationship. Instead of giving advice or trying to guide your actions based on my perspective, I want to understand how you see and experience your world to learn how to best support you as you confront life’s challenges.

I have experience working with people across the age spectrum struggling with stressful or unexpected life changes, issues within their friendships and relationships, self-esteem, anxiety, and depression. I’m especially passionate about working with fellow LGBTQ+ people who are navigating the complicated landscape of their own inner world and the world around us. If you think we might be a good fit, I encourage you to reach out. I look forward to meeting you.

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Bert Fox, LCPC https://prt.sixminuteslate.com/Therapists/bert-fox-lcpc/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:51:33 +0000 https://prt.sixminuteslate.com/?post_type=therapists&p=1849 I’m the founder and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) at Positive Regard Therapy. I graduated with a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling which I completed after a successful 17 year career in corporate marketing. I believe that by creating a collaborative and safe therapeutic relationship, I can be a strong and empathic partner to my clients as they explore the challenges they face and find new ways to initiate growth and change.

My clinical interests include: LGBTQ affirmative therapy (with a particular focus around issues affecting gay, bi or queer men), anxiety, depression, gender and sexual identity development and concerns around sex, relationships and intimacy. I’m sex positive and attuned to the needs of poly, non-monogamous, kink and BDSM clients. I work from a client-centered theoretical approach and integrate solution-focused therapy, motivational interviewing and mindfulness practices into my work.

I honor all the unique and diverse identities clients bring to my practice. I strongly believe that only when someone feels comfortable in their own identities will they feel empowered to achieve their fullest potential.

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