I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. I received my master's degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and I have been practicing for 10 years. I help adolescents and adults struggling with mental health problems stemming from traumatic life experiences and circumstances out of their control. I offer a compassionate and client-centered approach to therapy that utilizes both holistic and evidence-based practices.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In our first session, we'll start with brief introductions and then dive into your specific challenges. This will help me create a tailored plan for us to work through in follow-up sessions. It's vital that you find a therapist you are genuinely comfortable with who can partner with you on your healing journey. Understanding this, I offer a complementary phone consultation to help you decide if we are a good fit for each other.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
I advocate a unified approach to mental health and wellbeing and I offer clients a combination of different modality options. As I often tell my clients, therapy is not a “one size fits all” approach. I aim to establish an authentic partnership with clients and their families in order to tailor my methods and techniques to fit their unique situation. I truly believe in educating my clients not only about their mental health concerns but also how various negatives affect our minds and bodies. I encourage honesty, openness, empathy, compassion, and mutual trust.
About Olena Burger
Address
24W788 75th Street, Naperville, IL, USAAppointments
Virtual & in-person
My treatment methods
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a therapeutic approach guided by the adaptive information processing (AIP) model that explains how trauma is stored in the brain's neural network. Trauma can be encoded deep within our body and mind and previously unprocessed trauma and memories can manifest as dysfunctional traits, behaviors and beliefs that result in anxiety, stress, and negative self-talk that prevent you from fully enjoying life. The eye movements used in EMDR help unlock the system and allow the brain to process the unconscious material. Through EMDR you can tackle unprocessed traumatic past and negative beliefs by opening new channels and accelerating new experiences.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Awareness plays a significant role in processing the ideas, emotions, and encounters we face daily. Have you ever questioned your awareness of pain, or confronted your supposed shortcomings and fears to find if they truly exist? MBSR walks you through exploration and understanding of self, your deepest feelings, fears, and desires through mindful awareness. As you focus on living in the present, you fully participate in life as it happens, experiencing each joy, pain, and everything around you. Through MBSR, you will value the mystery and magic of the miracle of being alive. It is easy to ignore what’s happening around us as we hope for “better" moments in the future. As you prepare to witness what happens in your life at the present moment, you’ll gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of your sense of self.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
As the most commonly used therapy today, CBT helps to change your thought processing. This therapy uses a specific formula to challenge your thoughts and create different outcomes in your behaviors and feelings.
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
ACT helps to distinguish a sense of self that is continuous, safe, and consistent, and from which the client can observe and accept the flow of internal experiences. ACT helps the client flexibly take perspective toward himself, others, and his own experiences to facilitate the ACT flexibility processes, as well as compassion and empathy. The client learns how to approach life in a fluid and flexible way while setting up the goals toward fulfilling and meaningful lives he/she can create for himself/herself.
