About Ana
Ana Sikula is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, and everyday life challenges. She offers a calm, direct approach and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Ana speaks English and Spanish and works with adults from diverse backgrounds.
Ana blends focused talk with real-world strategies. She teaches tools for handling mood shifts, improving sleep, and strengthening self-esteem. She also guides people through relationship struggles, parenting stress, grief, and work-related pressures.
Background and approach
ADHD is listed among her common concerns and she helps clients find routines and coping methods that fit their lives. Her style centers on listening first, then building a plan together. Sessions combine emotional reflection with skills practice from therapies such as cognitive behavioral methods and mindfulness.
Ana pays attention to attachment patterns and how past relationships shape current problems. With ten years of experience, Ana draws on a range of approaches to match each person’s needs. She emphasizes clear communication, better emotion regulation, and steps that can be tried between sessions.
Practical coaching around career or caregiving stress is also available. Outside of work she is a partner and mother of two boys, and enjoys nutritious cooking, travel, and community activities. That life perspective informs a flexible, understanding way of working with clients.
Clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability. Ana works as an Illinois LCSW and offers sessions in formats that suit different schedules.
How Ana’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Ana uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT is practical and problem-focused, which can be useful for anxiety, sleep problems, and mood management.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult feelings, clarify what matters to them, and take small steps toward those values. ACT can be helpful for coping with chronic stress, life transitions, and rumination.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Ana will talk with clients about goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan as progress is made. She emphasizes simple skills you can practice between sessions and welcomes feedback about what helps.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat can serve as brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing coaching and quick follow-ups. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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