Natalie Sum, MA, LPC
Please note: The most secure way to contact me is here or through my email. I am not an emergency provider. If you are in an emergency, dial 911. Or, contact the National Suicide Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or go to your nearest Emergency Room.
Finding a therapist can be a daunting endeavor. As you search for the right therapist, you invite someone into the inner landscape of your heart. I do not take that lightly. In building trust, I seek to understand why it makes sense that you show up in the world as you do. The struggles in both past and present relationships are likely what brought you to the place of seeking therapy.
My approach is based on several modalities, rooted in a lens of attachment and the recognition of complex parts within you. I respect the significance of environmental, cultural, faith-centered, and family of origin influences.
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I specifically explore how to integrate parts of ourselves that we have banished due to emotional, sexual, relational,
racial or spiritual trauma and its impact on current relational dynamics. I am currently seeing new clients - adults and young adults - and work to create a safe, healing, empowering, and inclusive environment for all.
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I also currently work as a group facilitator at The Allender Center for their Narrative Focused Trauma Care training cohorts.
Education
MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Capella University
Master of Arts in Teaching, National Louis University
Current Facilitator and Advisor at The Allender Center, Seattle
Therapeutic Framework
Attachment Theory, EMDR, Emotional-Focused (EFT), Relational Psychotherapy, Trauma-based Narrative Therapy, Internal Family Systems
License
Licensed Professional Counselor (Illinois #178.019135)
American Counseling Association Member
As a licensed professional counselor, feel free to ask me about the weekly supervision and other orders of professional responsibility of which I am under with an LCPC clinical director.
523 W. Old Northwest Highway, Suite 202B
Barrington, IL 60010
224.208-8465
You Are Welcome Here
Whether you are in a body that is indigenous, black, brown, Latinx, Asian, or white.
You are welcome here.
Whether you are in a body that is gender non-binary, two-spirited, female, or male.
You are welcome here.
Whether you are in a body that is asexual, pansexual, trans, queer, bi, lesbian, gay, or heterosexual. You are welcome here.
Whether you are in a body that has seen few or many years.
You are welcome here.
Whatever limits your body has.
You are welcome here.
Whatever context you have come from.
You are welcome here.
I choose to create a safe learning space. I invite you to bring your whole self, all of your humanity, without any fear of being discriminated against. I welcome you.