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Robert Karcher, LPC, supports patients across Illinois in finding stability during life’s most challenging moments. He provides compassionate, evidence-based care designed to create meaningful, lasting change. Working with both adults and teens, Robert fosters a steady, supportive therapeutic environment where individuals can safely explore difficulties, strengthen resilience, and develop healthier patterns. As a clinician with LifeStance Health, he is dedicated to meeting the diverse needs of communities throughout Illinois with empathy, clarity, and clinical expertise. He is particularly passionate about helping individuals transition home after psychiatric hospitalization—a time that can feel disorienting and emotionally intense. Robert offers structured, stabilizing therapy focused on safety planning, skill-building, and restoring a sense of confidence and control for both patients and their families during this critical phase of recovery. Robert specializes in treating anxiety, depression, and ADHD, tailoring his approach to each individual’s goals and lived experience. He also works with those navigating trauma, grief, and complex life transitions, while supporting a broad range of additional mental health concerns. His clinical approach integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and mindfulness-based techniques to help patients build practical coping strategies and long-term emotional regulation skills. He also has experience working with specialized populations, including individuals with autism spectrum disorders, those connected to the foster care and adoption system, and LGBTQ+ clients, offering thoughtful, individualized support as needed. Outside of his clinical work, Robert enjoys history, role-playing games, film, music, theater, art, and spending time in nature.

Nicholas Shilney, LCPC, helps teens, adults, and seniors across Illinois navigate life’s most difficult emotional and behavioral challenges with a thoughtful, personal, and evidence-based approach. As a Licensed Mental Health Counselor at LifeStance Health, he provides individual therapy for those experiencing anxiety, depression, and trauma, creating a supportive space where clients can build resilience, improve coping skills, and move toward meaningful change. With his previous experiences working in higher level of care such as Residential, PHP, and IOP, he has a wide variety of approaches that he individualizes for each person he works with. Some of Nick’s preferred approaches include Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (RO-DBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). His work is grounded in helping individuals build compassionate awareness of their experiences while developing practical tools/strategies for long-term mental wellness. He works with clients facing concerns such as dysregulated mood, perfectionism, PTSD/trauma, ADHD, alcohol and drug use issues, while also addressing related life challenges. He serves diverse populations, including members of the LGBTQ+ community, neurodivergent folks, and military/veterans.  Nicholas brings a compassionate, relational presence to therapy. Outside of his clinical work, he enjoys playing video games, attending music shows and festivals, and finding the best pizza restaurants in Chicago.

I have worked in mental health since 2015. Specialize in Geek Therapy, Therapeautic Tabletop Role-Playing Games, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. I mainly work adults and have spent a lot of time working with autism, developmental disabilities, depression, anxiety, obsessive complusive disorder, and schizophrenia. At home I enjoy playing role-playing games, watching geeky stuff, and spending time with dog.

Life can change suddenly, through trauma, illness, loss, burnout, relationship strain, or simply carrying too much for too long. I work with adults, couples, first responders, veterans, and LGBTQ+ clients who are navigating anxiety, depression, chronic stress, grief, identity exploration, relationship challenges, and recovery from difficult life experiences. My approach is collaborative, grounded, and nonjudgmental, with space for both honesty and humor. I specialize in anxiety, trauma/PTSD, depression, grief, chronic illness, eating disorders, stress, insomnia, self-esteem, and relationship challenges including divorce, infidelity, and ENM/poly relationships. My practice is LGBTQ+ affirming, kink-friendly, sex-positive, and welcoming to bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, and nonbinary clients. My approach is warm, direct, trauma-informed, and grounded in real life. I work with people navigating trauma, chronic illness, grief, anxiety, burnout, and relationship stress, especially those in high-stress professions. Therapy with me is affirming, collaborative, and judgment-free, creating space for healing, stability, and authentic connection.

Meet Threasa “Tee” Kluever, LCSW Helping you rewrite your relationship with yourself, others, the world around you, and the stories that hold you back. If you’ve ever felt stuck in a cycle of self-doubt or felt like you’re carrying more than you can hold — Tee offers a space where all of that is welcome. Her style is warm, down-to-earth, and centered around helping you feel truly seen and heard, just as you are. Tee is especially passionate about working with people who are navigating life changes and grief, self-esteem and self-image challenges, and exploring ways to create more meaningful lives. She understands how intertwined experiences, thoughts, behaviors, emotions, and identity can be — and she helps clients gently untangle those threads to create a more compassionate, empowered relationship with themselves. Her clients describe sessions with her as safe, supportive, and grounding — a space to speak freely, explore hard truths, and slowly build confidence and clarity. Whether you’re navigating a life transition, healing from trauma, or learning to manage anxiety, Tee brings both skill and heart to the process, along with creative tools to assist clients with self-exploration and expression. She has specialized training in grief work (Certified Grief Professional), trauma (Certified Clinical Trauma Professional), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (C-DBT). She has expertise in treating eating disorders and substance use. She often works with adolescents and women in transitions, LGBTQ+ individuals, and people who want to address the complexities of being human in this world. Tee’s approach consists of treating the person, not any one specific concern. She works alongside her clients to identify the challenges that are holding them back from thriving and generating purposeful shifts in behaviors, thinking patterns and deregulating experiences to foster clients creating their meaningful lives. Outside the therapy room, you’ll likely find her with her beloved pup, Sir Winston or reading a good memoir that dives deep into real human stories — just like the ones she’s honored to hold space for in her work.

Dr. Amber Jelinek offers psychological and neuropsychological testing and DBT skills group for Illinois. She is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who specialized in Forensics and Neuropsychology. When testing, she works with ages 6+ and assesses for academic issues, autism, ADHD, cognitive and executive functioning, memory, mood, personality, PTSD, and thought disorders. Prior to joining LifeStance, she facilitated group therapy and other various skills groups for 14 years in correctional type settings. Her journey has given her vast experience with providing treatment for all the diagnostic issues she now assesses. When teaching skills groups, she uses a combination of lecture and experiential methods. In addition to impromptu modeling of skills, she pulls from personal or made-up situations to use as examples for various skills to help see the skill(s) in motion. These methods help to optimize the deepest understanding and practice of the skills being taught.