About William
William Swieringa is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 39 years of experience. He helps people handle stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship struggles, and life transitions. He practices in Illinois and speaks English.
William uses a calm, straightforward style in sessions. He favors practical tools and clear goals. He helps people sort priorities, make decisions, and manage day-to-day challenges like sleep, eating, and work stress.
His work often addresses mood issues such as depression and bipolar concerns, and he supports people facing grief, trauma, or compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
He also helps those coping with ADHD-related challenges and career or self-esteem struggles. Conversations focus on what’s happening now and what small steps feel doable. William draws from several approaches to shape treatment, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness methods, existential ideas, and motivational interviewing.
Sessions combine listening, skill practice, and feedback to help clients test changes between meetings. He offers multiple online formats so people can fit therapy into busy lives. New clients complete a short questionnaire to match and then schedule a session.
William aims to create a respectful space where practical problem solving meets honest conversation.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take small actions that match those values, even when emotions are hard. It’s useful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with mood, sleep, and worry. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve moment-to-moment focus, often paired with other methods for ongoing problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. William will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then use one or a mix of methods that fit. Treatment is collaborative - the therapist and client test what helps and adjust as needed.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face without travel. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break during a workday. Live chat or text-based messaging supports short check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or follow-up between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 39 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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