Blog | Insights on Healing & Growth
How therapy helps you love more fully: Learning to tolerate intimacy, conflict, and authenticity
Therapy helps you love more fully by fostering the ability to tolerate intimacy, conflict, and authenticity. At Wicker Park Therapy Group, our Chicago therapists use relational and psychoanalytic approaches to help you understand emotional patterns, strengthen communication, and create deeper, more secure relationships.
Why we repeat old relationship patterns: The unconscious pull of familiar dynamics
We repeat old relationship patterns because early attachment and protective strategies form unconscious “maps” for love. Under stress, we reenact what’s familiar—hoping for a new ending. At Wicker Park Therapy Group in Chicago, relational and psychoanalytic therapy helps you identify the cycle, understand its roots, and practice new ways of connecting.
Exploring identity in therapy: How therapy can support questions of culture, race, gender, and belonging
Therapy can be a safe, affirming space to explore identity across race, culture, gender, and sexuality. At Wicker Park Therapy Group in Chicago, we offer culturally responsive, LGBTQIA+ and trans-affirming, relational therapy that addresses bias, belonging, and intergenerational stories—helping clients replace shame with language, boundaries, community, and self-acceptance.
Understanding shame and self-compassion: A psychoanalytic look at self-criticism, guilt, and repair
Shame often hides beneath perfectionism or self-criticism. At Wicker Park Therapy Group, our Chicago therapists use relational, psychoanalytic therapy to explore shame’s origins and help you cultivate genuine self-compassion and emotional repair. Healing begins with understanding, not judgment.
Finding mental health support in Wicker Park: Local resources, community spirit, and why location matters
Wicker Park has always been a place of creativity, reflection, and renewal. At Wicker Park Therapy Group, we see therapy as part of that same rhythm—a space to slow down, make meaning, and reconnect.
What makes a “good fit” with a Chicago therapist? How to tell if therapy—and your therapist—match your needs
A good fit with a therapist means you feel safe, understood, and able to do meaningful work at a pace that suits you. Look for clear explanations, collaborative goals, openness to feedback, and comfort discussing identity and culture. In Chicago, Wicker Park Therapy Group offers consults to help you assess fit and start well.