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ILLINOIS LICENSED THERAPIST - TELEHEALTH STATEWIDE

You're holding it
all together.

Who's holding you?

Therapy for women who are self-aware, capable, and
quietly exhausted by it. This work goes beyond insight where real change can happen. 

Michaela Kozlik, Illinois therapist for anxiety, trauma, perimenopause, burnout

Hi, I'm Michaela​

PHILOSOPHY

                         

YOU MIGHT BE HERE BECAUSE

You know yourself well.

And you're still stuck.

You can make it look okay. That's part of the problem.

No one really sees how much it takes. How much you're holding in.

 

You've tried to understand it, Fix it. Think your way out of it. But it's still here.

The same patterns, same weight, same exhaustion keep showing up anyway.

And the hardest part is that it started to feel normal,,, like this is just how life is now.​​

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Your anxiety does not quiet down no matter how much you understand it

 

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You're high-functioning on the outside and barely holding it together inside

 

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Rest does not relieve the fatigue and exhaustion

 

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You can see your patterns clearly and repeat them anyway

 

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You're not sure who you are when no one needs anything from you

 

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Something is shifting in perimenopause & midlife,...in your body, in your sense of self, and you don't recognize yourself anymore

But something in you knows that THIS IS NOT IT. YOU WANT MORE.

YOU WANT TO FEEL DIFFERENT.

THIS IS DIFFERENT

Therapy that honors

your intelligence and your nervous system.

Your mind, body, your history, and your relationships all belong in the room. ​

Not as separate problems to solve, but as parts of one whole person.

This is not surface-level coping or symptom management. This work is vulnerable,

sometimes uncomfortable, and profoundly freeing because it goes to the root of

what's actually happening, not just the story you've learned to tell about it.​​

WHO THIS IS FOR

Intelligent, self-aware, motivated women

who are ready for something to shift.

—  THE DOERS AND THE GIVERS who are exhausted by how much they carry and don't know how to stop.​

—  WOMEN CARRYING OLD TRAUMA that keeps surfacing in new situations, new relationships, new seasons of life.​​

—  WOMEN IN PERIMENOPAUSE AND/OR MIDLIFE​ who feel like the ground has shifted underneath you emotionally, physically, and in your sense of self.​

—  WOMEN IN MAJOR TRANSITIONS like career change, divorce, loss, new chapter, wanting support that goes deeper than coping.

How I can help you​

The anxiety that looks like competence & feels like bracing for everything to fall appart.

PERIMENOPAUSE & MIDLIFE

When the body and the self are changing at once & what used to work doesn't anymore.

Including the kind that does not have a clear event. The slow accumulation of not being safe, not being seen, not being enough.

When weekly therapy is not enough. Half-day & full day sessions for deeper, concentrated work.

BURNOUT

Not a productivity problem. A nervous system and relational issue — a body that has been giving more than it has received for a very long time.

Little background & why I do what I do.

BEGIN HERE

Free 20-minute conversation

is where most people start.

 

No commitment, Just a chance to see if this feels like a fit.

 

Not ready to book yet? 

Start here.

If you're still figuring out if this kind of work is what you need, the free guide is a good place to begin. It won't ask anything of you except a moment to slow down. And it won't try to talk you into anything.

 

WHAT'S INSIDE:

13 sessions each designed to support nervous system healing:

• A brief explanation of the practice

• A simple exercise you can do anywhere

• Journaling prompts to reflect and notice

 

Get the free guide!

Stay connected with supportive practices and reflections to slow down and simplify your life.

"You are already self-aware.

What you need is someone who can sit with you

where insight has not been able to reach."

The first conversation
does not commit you to anything.

A free 20-minute consultation is just a conversation. What's going on for you, what working together might look like, whether this feels like a fit. No forms before we have even spoken.
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