At Bright Light Counseling Center's Chicago location, we provide personalized mental health therapy services designed to help you rediscover your bright light. 

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Our team of therapists offers both in-person and online counseling to teens, college students, young adults, and mid-life adults throughout Chicago and the greater Illinois area.

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​Living in Chicago means navigating both opportunities and challenges. Being a human means navigating life with it's full range of ups, downs, and daily stressors. Whether you are trying to cope with current stressors or looking to work on your experiences of anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, trauma, grief, or major life transitions, we are ready to help you live the life you deserve to live. 

Our Chicago therapists understand the specific pressures of city life. This includes seasonal depression during Chicago's long, harsh winters, work-life balance struggles in our competitive, fast-paced business environment, and financial stress from high living costs and economic pressures. Many Chicagoans also deal with neighborhood changes, commuting stress and transportation challenges, family and cultural expectations within tight-knit communities, and processing difficult urban experiences.

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Rather than just surviving these challenges, our Chicago therapists help you build real skills to thrive. We know that both life's struggles and city-specific pressures need therapists who truly get the Chicago experience. Our culturally informed support honors your resilience while addressing the real challenges of both personal growth and urban living.

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Whether you're working through relationship issues, school stress, career stress, family dynamics, or the unique demands of Chicago life, our therapists provide compassionate understanding and practical solutions, helping you develop the emotional strength that matches this city's legendary toughness.​