About Corey
Corey Cunningham is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois who helps people facing anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, trauma, and identity-related concerns. Corey is queer-identifying and uses a strengths-based stance to help people reconnect with what already works. Sessions are warm, direct, and built around what matters most to each person.
Corey centers each meeting on the person in front of them. They often begin by inviting something meaningful - a song, a photo, a meme - to open the conversation and anchor what matters that week.
Background and approach
This leads into practical talk about symptoms and coping, and choices about next steps. Movement and body awareness may be used to notice how stress shows up physically. The approach values resilience.
Corey helps people notice small changes and build on them. Work may focus on self-esteem, relationship patterns, career shifts, or navigating life changes and family stress. ADHD and autism-related concerns are part of the areas Corey supports, always attending to each person’s lived experience.
Corey brings five years of clinical experience to sessions and holds an Illinois LCPC license. They welcome frank conversations about trauma, sexual assault, and self-harm while pacing work to each person’s readiness. Practical tools, small experiments, and respect for accommodations are common parts of the process.
Sessions are conversational and collaborative. Corey aims to create a calm, accepting space where people can try new ways of coping without pressure. If someone wants help sorting through next steps, Corey offers guidance and shared planning toward clearer daily routines and goals.
How these approaches work in online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on following the person’s lead and creating a supportive, nonjudgmental conversation. It helps people clarify values, set goals, and feel heard while deciding what changes to try.Somatic Therapy pays attention to how stress and emotion show up in the body. In online sessions this might mean small guided movement or breath awareness to notice sensations and reduce overwhelm. It is useful for people coping with trauma, chronic stress, or sensory sensitivities.
Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on helping people process difficult experiences at a pace they can handle. Work is paced to the person’s readiness and may combine talk, body-based practices, and skill-building to manage reactions.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Corey will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then try methods collaboratively and adjust as needed. The plan can change over time based on what works.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions require less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can make shorter check-ins or ongoing support easier to fit into a busy day. These options help people balance therapy with work, school, caregiving, and other demands.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Life purpose
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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