About Banan
Banan Said is a licensed clinical professional counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and parenting challenges. She works with adults who are trying to find clearer ways to cope and communicate. Sessions are offered in English and Arabic.
Banan uses practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people reduce panic symptoms, handle social anxiety, and face overwhelming feelings. She listens closely and helps clients break problems into small, manageable steps.
Background and approach
The work often includes learning simple skills for calming the body, shifting anxious thoughts, and improving day-to-day communication. Her background includes six years of clinical experience and a professional license as an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, or LCPC. That experience has involved supporting people through loss, attachment concerns, and struggles with guilt or shame.
She also addresses issues around midlife changes, life purpose, and the emotional effects of pregnancy and childbirth. In sessions she prioritizes cultural awareness and respect for each person’s values and faith. Clients can expect a direct but compassionate style, with concrete tools to practice between visits.
Therapy may include work on forgiveness, boundary setting, and rebuilding trust after abandonment or betrayal. People looking for flexible session formats can connect by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. The goal is steady progress - small, practical changes that make daily life feel more manageable.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Two common evidence-based techniques used in anxiety work are cognitive-based methods and exposure-style practices. Cognitive methods help people notice and shift unhelpful thinking patterns that fuel worry or panic, often by practicing small thought experiments and simple reframing exercises. Exposure-style work helps people face avoided situations in gradual steps so panic and avoidance decrease over time, starting with doable tasks and building from there. Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, comfort level, and daily routine. That collaborative process includes checking in about what’s helping and changing strategies when needed. Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions let people work face-to-face from different locations, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quicker check-ins, and messaging works for short updates or troubled moments between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and maintain progress over time.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Arabic
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