Meet Your Therapists

Thoughtful, steady telehealth therapy across Illinois.
Each therapist brings their own approach, warmth, and lived perspective to the work.
We’ll help you find someone who feels like the right fit.

We’re a small, intentional practice.

You can choose your therapist, or we can help guide you based on what you’re navigating and availability.

Schedule with Samantha

Founder & Therapist
Samantha Traum, LCSW, CDP, ADHD-CCSP

I work with adults who are managing a lot. Maybe you just received an ADHD diagnosis as an adult and are still making sense of it. Maybe your ADHD is colliding with the demands of your job. Maybe you're navigating a new or ongoing medical diagnosis, a cancer diagnosis, or the trauma of a healthcare system that didn't treat you well. Maybe you're holding multiple conditions at once, carrying the weight of caregiving, or in a work life that's become impossible to sustain.

My approach is collaborative, practical, and grounded in real life. I'm easy going, I use humor, and I don't take myself too seriously. But I will also gently call you out when something isn't adding up, because that's where the real work happens. I'm not going to hand you a worksheet and call it a session. We'll actually think things through together, figure out what's getting in the way, and build something that works for how your brain and body actually function. You don't have to have it figured out to start.

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Schedule with Kayla

Therapist
Kayla Shoemaker, LCSW

Kayla works with adults who have spent a lot of their lives feeling like their brain works differently than everyone else's, and who are ready to finally understand why and figure out what to do with that.

Her background is rooted in neurodevelopmental and mood disorders, which means she understands the layered experience of living with ADHD, Autism, or a physical or intellectual disability, not just as a diagnosis, but as something that touches every part of daily life. She's especially skilled at working through the anxiety, depression, and grief that often show up alongside those experiences.

Kayla's approach is strengths-based and practical. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and evidence-based social skills training to help clients build real coping tools, not just talk about their problems. She believes her clients already have more capacity than they've been given credit for, and her job is to help them access it.

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