About Traci
Traci White is a licensed clinical professional counselor who practices in Illinois. She brings five years of experience and a calm, steady presence to sessions. Traci aims to help people understand what is affecting them and find practical ways to feel better.
Her background includes work in community mental health, in-home counseling, long-term care facilities, and independent practice. Those settings shaped a flexible style that fits different life situations. She has supported people with trauma, domestic violence, ADHD, autism spectrum concerns, depression, anxiety, and other challenges.
Background and approach
Traci uses a trauma-informed stance that focuses on safety and non-judgment. She pays attention to both feelings in the body and thoughts in the mind. That means sessions can include talking together, noticing bodily responses, and learning small skills to manage difficult moments.
The first steps in her work are building trust and helping clients name what matters to them. From there she helps people practice new ways of responding to stress and old patterns. She supports finding small changes that add up to bigger shifts over time.
Clients often come for help with stress, relationships, parenting strain, grief, sleeping or eating problems, addiction concerns, and identity or body-image issues. Traci also addresses attachment, abandonment, blended family challenges, and coping after disasters. Her approach blends somatic awareness, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused thinking, and practical cognitive-behavioral tools.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to each person's comfort. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment.
How somatic and acceptance approaches work online
Traci uses somatic-informed methods to help people notice body sensations that connect to stress and trauma. That work involves simple, guided attention to breathing, posture, and physical cues to help manage strong feelings and ground in the present. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, committed steps toward them while accepting difficult thoughts and emotions. Attachment-based ideas look at how early relationships shape current patterns and aim to build safer, more trusting ways to relate to others.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit a client's needs, goals, and comfort level. Sessions adapt based on feedback so the plan can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let someone use visual cues and gentle body-focused exercises together. Phone sessions suit those who prefer voice-only contact. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or use shorter, on-the-go support. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and practice skills where they live and work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English