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Amber Konopa, LCPC - Illinois Therapist at Grow Therapy

Amber Konopa

Amber Konopa

(she/they)

LCPC
22 years of experience
Warm
Empowering
Virtual

Hello. Thank you for the time. Life is quite the journey with many twists and turns that can make you feel stuck in painful experiences while forgetting the beauty that exists. I aim to create a safe, warm, and inviting space where one can discover their hidden strengths to overcome and prevail. There is not one thing or approach that gets a person into recovery or quality of living. Whatever is bringing you to step out of the cage and take notice to the discomfort around takes courage. I believe it’s a privilege to be invited into one’s most raw, vulnerable state and allow another to enter.

What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?

Using a flexible/out of the box style assists clients to discover how unhealthy coping patterns have been used, learn healthy life skills, and foster recovery and wellness. I intertwine my 23 years of clinical experience working in all levels of care, utilizing creative approaches with research based-complementary theoretical methods to achieve your hopes.

Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.

The way I connect with all walks of life. I have been told by clients, colleagues, supervisors "you save lives" which is humbling.

About Amber Konopa

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Virtual

My treatment methods

Strength-Based

Over the last 23 years I have worked with children to older adults working in all levels of care: in patient hospitalization-medical detox-physical medicine rehabilitation-residential-PHP/IOP-therapeutic day school as well as private practice. Besides using strength based methods, I also use a client centered approach with CBT, DBT, ACT, Motivational Interviewing, Psychoeducation, Disease Education, Buddhist Psychology, Creative Expression, as well as Recreational Therapy. Using strengths assists people in so many different ways and can be quite remarkable. I use strength building in every session from the various topics that are brought up identifying places where they faced adversity and rose up. How can one make changes with the same thinking and behaviors? Strengths have the ability to build worth, confidence, acceptance, empowerment, resiliency, as well as having a person say “I never thought recovery was possible” or “I never thought I could….”