About Traci
Traci White is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with five years of clinical experience in Illinois. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, ADHD, and a range of life changes. Traci keeps language simple and direct so worried parents can read quickly and understand options.
Her background includes community mental health, in-home counseling, long-term healthcare settings, and independent practice. That variety shaped a practical way of working that focuses on daily coping skills and steady progress.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to build trust, awareness, and clearer choices for next steps. In sessions she uses approaches such as acceptance and commitment work, attachment-based ideas, and cognitive-behavioral techniques. Traci listens first and then helps people try small experiments that can reduce stress and improve routines.
She also draws on skills from dialectical behavior therapy when managing strong emotions. Traci describes her style as trauma-informed and nonjudgmental. She prioritizes helping people feel understood while teaching tools to shift habits.
Parents reading this should know the goal is practical change - better sleep, calmer reactions, clearer boundaries, or more consistent daily routines. People come to her for help with relationships, grief, eating and sleeping concerns, addiction, career strain, body image, and attachment worries. She supports coaching-like goals as well as therapy work.
Every plan is tailored to what the person wants to achieve next.
How her approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and choosing actions that match your values. It can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions by teaching practical ways to move toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings interact and uses short experiments to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, sleep issues, and mood difficulties. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns affect current trust and connection. It can support people working through abandonment, attachment issues, and family of origin struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, needs, and preferences and choose methods together. Sessions often mix techniques so each plan fits the person's life and priorities.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families and individuals. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions are a good option when video is hard to do or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions or have shorter, focused conversations. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, and caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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