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Chicago Therapy and Wellness Services
Explore Chicago therapist Todd Nelson's array of therapy and wellness services to discover the right technique or approach for your needs. All services are evidence-based and delivered by a trained, qualified, and dedicated therapist committed to your well-being and emotional balance, prioritizing your mental health to help you live a fulfilled life. These descriptions offer an overview of therapeutic approaches, with each process tailored to your personal needs, goals, and issues. Todd values honest feedback and encourages clients to share their concerns to improve their relationship and achieve the best therapy outcome, ensuring every client feels understood, heard, and supported.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a form of therapy that helps clients focus on the present moment, and accept thoughts and feelings without judgment. It aims to help them move forward through difficult emotions, so they can put their whole energy into healing instead of dwelling on the opposing sides. With the help of a licensed professional, clients can learn from a collection of coping mechanisms specifically designed for personal situations, which clients can use throughout their life to handle challenging experiences, and unexpected events.
Chicago Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
What is Chicago Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)?
What are the benefits of the MBCT approach?
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) helps people who suffer repeated bouts of depression and chronic unhappiness. It combines ideas from therapy and meditative practices. Todd Nelson is trained in MBCT, allowing him to help his patients discover their better lives, as well as regain inner calm and peace.
What conditions can be treated with Chicago Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy?
While MBCT was initially developed to treat depression, it has also been shown to be effective for other uses.
Therapists have discovered a whole spectrum of benefits resulting from MBCT, including higher levels of client self-confidence, fewer toxic relationships, better pain tolerance, fewer hopeless thoughts, fewer suicidal thoughts, better anger management.
Who can benefit from therapy?
Therapy is for everyone who feels the loss of life-work balance, loss of life satisfaction, loss of inner peace, who is in a complicated, or toxic relationship, or who suffers from the loss of a loved one. Therapy can help fight anxiety and phobias, common social issues like fear of commitment, loneliness, and other relationship difficulties. Everyone may benefit from deeper insight into themself, better ways of handling challenging situations, and ways of coping under stress or pressure.
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