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.
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.