Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Treatment
Nicole Glass, MA, LCPC
Many people turn to psychotherapy for help with anxiety, depression, painful relationship patterns, or sometimes just the feeling that something is missing from life. It might help you to know that with motivation, many people can make progress immediately with internal struggles and with becoming more effective in their work and relationships.
I provide treatment for adults seeking a deeper understanding of themselves, their relationships, and recurring emotional experiences. My work is grounded in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic treatment, with attention to the complexity and individuality of each person's experience.
Begin with a consultation“It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.”
Treatment begins through speaking.
Patients are invited to freely express thoughts, feelings, memories, associations, and experiences as they arise, including what may feel uncertain, repetitive, difficult to articulate, or not yet fully understood. Within expression itself, one may begin to listen differently to what is being said, notice patterns that emerge over time, and encounter aspects of oneself with greater depth and clarity.
Through this unfolding process, reflection and introspection may deepen, allowing meaning to emerge in ways that are not always immediately apparent. At times, this may lead toward change—whether in one's relationship to the self, in the capacity to sustain interpersonal relationships, or in discovering healthier ways of functioning. Change is not something imposed, but something that may emerge through attention, inquiry, and a closer engagement with one's internal life.
Treatment is understood as an evolving process shaped through language, reflection, and the meanings carried within experience, emotion, and repetition. Psychoanalytic work invites a deeper engagement with oneself and offers the possibility of greater understanding over time.
A Reflective Approach to Treatment
Situated within a psychodynamic tradition and informed by psychoanalytic study and training, Nicole's clinical work emphasizes careful attention to emotional experience, relational patterns, and the meanings that emerge through treatment. She works with individuals experiencing anxiety, depression, and difficulties related to self-esteem and self-worth.
Her clinical attention turns toward recurring ways of relating, internal conflict, protective modes of coping, and the ways experience may be carried, repeated, and expressed over time. Through speaking and reflection, aspects of experience that may otherwise go unrecognized can become available for deeper understanding.
Nicole holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Counseling and Psychotherapy from the Institute for Clinical Social Work. Her graduate studies have continued at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, where she is completing a Master of Arts in Psychoanalysis while pursuing advanced psychoanalytic training.
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Difficulties related to self-esteem and self-worth
Insurance and private pay options.
- Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO
- Aetna
- Private Pay
Office Hours
Monday-Friday: 9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Saturday and Sunday: Closed
Address
6127 S University Ave #1013
Chicago, IL 60637