About Ana
Ana Sikula, LCSW, helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or big life changes. She offers calm, practical support and clear steps people can try between sessions. Conversations are straightforward and focused on what the person needs right now.
Ana draws on ten years of experience in Illinois to guide people through relationship and family challenges. She listens for patterns that lead to repeated conflict and works with clients to try new ways of communicating.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing parenting strain, caregiving stress, grief, and career-related pressures. Her style is warm and person-centered. Sessions focus on building useful skills like managing difficult feelings, improving sleep, and handling impulsive responses.
Cognitive tools and mindfulness exercises are used when they fit the person’s goals and preferences. Ana also uses approaches that pay attention to attachment and emotional bonding. That helps when intimacy, blended family issues, or family-of-origin problems are part of the struggle.
She adapts the plan to fit each person’s cultural background and life story, and she can meet in English or Spanish. Practical matters are discussed up front, including how to try small behavior changes and how to practice new communication skills at home.
People who want to start choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session according to availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Ana often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT is practical and can be useful for anxiety, sleep problems, and managing mood shifts.She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at patterns in close relationships. That approach helps when intimacy, communication problems, or family-of-origin issues make daily life harder.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ana will talk with the person about goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. The plan is adjusted over time based on what helps most, and decisions are made together.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing expressions matters. Phone sessions or live chat can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions and quick updates about progress.
These options make it simpler to maintain continuity during life transitions, caregiving periods, or work demands while using therapeutic approaches that match each person's concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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