Nicole Glass, MA, LCPC
Many people turn to psychotherapy for help with anxiety, depression, painful relationship patterns, or sometimes just the feeling that something is missing from life. With consistent engagement, treatment can support reflection, insight, and gradual change in how one understands oneself, works, and relates to others.
I provide culturally responsive psychotherapy as a licensed therapist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in Chicago for adults seeking a deeper understanding of themselves, their relationships, and recurring patterns of anxiety, sadness, anger, shame, grief, longing, and self-protection. My approach emphasizes careful listening, reflection, and attention to the complexity and individuality of each person's experience.
“It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.”
Treatment begins through speaking.
Patients are invited to speak about what comes to mind, including what may feel uncertain, repetitive, difficult to articulate, or not yet fully understood. Through this process, one may begin to listen differently to what is being said, notice patterns that emerge over time, and encounter aspects of oneself with greater depth and clarity.
In treatment, reflection and introspection can deepen. Patterns may become clearer: how one relates to the self, how relationships are sustained, and where older ways of coping no longer serve. Change is not imposed; it is worked toward through attention, inquiry, and a closer engagement with one's thoughts, feelings, and recurring patterns.
Treatment is understood as an evolving process shaped through language, reflection, and the meanings carried in anxiety, sadness, anger, shame, longing, silence, conflict, and repetition. Psychoanalytic work invites a deeper engagement with oneself and offers the possibility of greater understanding over time.
A Reflective Approach to Treatment
Situated within a psychodynamic tradition and informed by psychoanalytic study and training, Nicole's clinical work as a Chicago psychoanalytic psychotherapist emphasizes careful attention to feeling, conflict, self-protection, relational patterns, and the meanings that emerge through treatment. She works with individuals experiencing anxiety, depression, and difficulties related to self-esteem and self-worth.
Her clinical attention turns toward recurring ways of relating, internal conflict, protective modes of coping, racial and cultural identity, and the ways experience may be carried, repeated, and expressed over time. Through speaking and reflection, aspects of experience that may otherwise go unrecognized can become available for deeper understanding.
Nicole holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Counseling and Psychotherapy from the Institute for Clinical Social Work. Her graduate studies have continued at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, where she is completing a Master of Arts in Psychoanalysis while pursuing advanced psychoanalytic training.
She is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Illinois.
Treatment may be useful when anxiety, depression, shame, self-criticism, or repeated relationship patterns begin to feel difficult to understand alone. Psychoanalytic work attends to how these concerns appear in thought, feeling, memory, identity, work, intimacy, and the ways a person has learned to protect themselves.
Areas of focus include anxiety, depression, self-esteem and self-worth, racial and cultural identity, and relationship patterns. These concerns are not treated as isolated categories, but as parts of a person's history, relationships, conflicts, desires, and self-understanding.
Payment options are handled with clarity.
- Private pay sessions are $200.
- Aetna status is pending final confirmation.
- Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO and Blue Choice PPO are accepted in network.
- Coverage varies by plan, so patients are encouraged to confirm benefits before beginning treatment.
Before beginning therapy.
What is psychoanalytic psychotherapy?
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a form of therapy that attends to anxiety, sadness, anger, shame, grief, desire, relationships, memory, repetition, and the meanings that emerge through speaking over time.
What happens during a first consultation?
A first consultation is an opportunity to speak about what brings you to therapy, ask initial questions, and begin considering whether the treatment feels like a thoughtful fit. It is a beginning conversation, not a commitment to ongoing work.
Do you offer therapy in Chicago?
Yes. Nicole Glass, MA, LCPC offers psychotherapy in Chicago, Illinois, with an office address in Hyde Park and appointment scheduling available online.
What issues do you work with?
Areas of focus include anxiety, depression, self-esteem and self-worth, racial and cultural identity, relationship patterns, and self-understanding.
Do you offer culturally responsive therapy?
Yes. Treatment is attentive to the complexity of each person's experience, including identity, culture, relationships, and the social contexts that shape shame, pride, grief, anger, belonging, and self-understanding.
Office & Hours
6127 S University Ave #1013
Chicago, IL 60637
Monday-Friday: 9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Saturday and Sunday: Closed
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