About Traci
Traci White is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois. She brings five years of clinical experience and a calm, steady presence to sessions. Traci aims to help people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, struggling with mood or attention, or facing challenges after trauma.
She has worked in community mental health programs, in-home counseling, long-term healthcare facilities, and independent practice. Those settings shaped a practical style that focuses on small, steady changes people can use between sessions.
Background and approach
Traci listens first, then offers tools tailored to day-to-day life. In therapy she uses several evidence-informed approaches, including cognitive behavioral methods, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused work, client-centered listening, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. That mix helps her match techniques to each person’s situation and goals.
Traci describes her stance as trauma-informed and nonjudgmental. She emphasizes building trust and a sense of safety before tackling difficult memories or patterns. Her work often involves helping people notice patterns, practice new responses, and strengthen relationships with themselves and others.
People reach out to address ADHD-related struggles, mood concerns such as depression or bipolar patterns, addictions, grief, relationship and family issues, parenting strain, and work-related stress. She also supports folks dealing with attachment wounds, abandonment, body image, and co-occurring concerns. The focus stays practical: clearer thinking, steadier emotion, and better day-to-day coping.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting pulled into them and commit to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and motivation struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that maintain problems and teaching concrete strategies to change them, which often helps with depression, anxiety, and sleep issues. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and works to build safer ways of relating to others and to oneself.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and past experiences to decide which tools to try first. That way therapy stays flexible and adjusts as progress is made or challenges shift.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for people balancing busy lives. Video calls let you see body language and have deeper conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging can be used for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, parenting, or medical schedules while still using established therapeutic methods.
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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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