Gabby Wnek
Hello my name is Gabby Wnek and I am a licensed clinical social worker based in Illinois. I have been practicing for 8 years. I help adults with anxiety, depressing, stress, and burnout. I help clients identify where they are feeling stuck, educate clients on the nervous system, and provide tools and techniques to regulate the nervous system.
I help clients identify where they are feeling stuck, educate clients on the nervous system, and provide tools and techniques to regulate the nervous system.
My approach with client is very practical so that clients can have a toolbox of skills that they can use for the rest of their lives.
First session
Our first session together is going to be information gathering. I want to understand what is going on and the reason that are you seeking therapy. I will ask questions about your symptoms, how long symptoms have been happening, and what your goals are going to be in therapy. I will ask you about your past, including any past traumas, family mental health history, if you are on any medications, and your current living environment.
Strengths
My greatest strength as a provider is that I practice what I preach. Everything that I suggest and educate clients on I have personally used or use in my life. I have been through debilitating anxiety and chronic pain. I have learned how to calm and regulate my nervous system and continue to heal the chronic pain. I know that it's like to feel out of control and to want to change. I really understand mental health issues. I provide a safe container for clients, empathy, understanding, and a non-judgmental environment. I can also push clients when I feel like they need it.
Ideal clients
I love working with clients that are ready to change and have motivation to create the life that they want. I love working with clients that are sick and tired of feeling sick and tired and are ready to put in the work to change in different areas of their life.
Treatment methods
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
I have training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. I use radical acceptance with clients to be able to accept what is happening in the moment and feel all emotions.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I use CBT and support clients in identifying thought patterns that are not serving each client and creating ways to interrupt patterns and create new and more productive thought patterns over time that lead to neuroplastic change in the brain.
Somatic
I have my training in somatic therapy, specifically through the Somatic Experiencing Institute. I use somatic therapy to help clients gain more awareness in body sensations, where emotions are in the body, and how to sit with a variety of different sensations in the body. Somatic therapy can also be used as a helpful modality for trauma.
Mind-body approach
I have experience in treating mind-body conditions particularly many forms of chronic pain, or conditions under TMS (tension myositis syndrome). I use many different concepts from the mind-body space to create regulation in the nervous system and feeling and being with big emotions and sensations in mind and body.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
I have been using tapping on myself for quite a while and I am currently in a training to continue my education about EFT tapping. I incorporate tapping into my sessions and teach clients how to use tapping in their everyday life for emotional processing and to clear out problems and issues that clients are dealing with it. My clients that I have used it with so far enjoy tapping!
Location
Virtual sessions
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- IllinoisLicense 149021588