Chicago women are carrying a lot. Career pressure. Family responsibility. The expectation to be competent, composed, and available simultaneously. Somewhere in the middle of all of it, the question of what you actually want, who you actually are, and what you actually need can get very quiet. Individual therapy for women in Chicago creates space to listen to those questions honestly, and to build a life that belongs to you, not just to everyone who needs something from you.
Women who come to therapy in Chicago are rarely struggling with one thing. They are navigating an intersection: career and relationship, ambition and guilt, self-advocacy and the expectations of family, culture, or partnership.
Individual therapy here does not address one piece of that in isolation. It holds the whole picture.
Loop office at 125 S Wacker Drive with lunch-hour and evening appointments. Hyde Park office with Friday evening and Saturday availability. Online therapy throughout Illinois.
The pressures Chicago women navigate are specific. The dual standard of a city that celebrates ambition but still frequently penalizes it in women. The particular exhaustion of being the emotional manager of a household while also building a career. The cultural layers for women from immigrant families, navigating the expectations of two worlds simultaneously.
Being expected to be professionally excellent, relationally present, physically composed, and emotionally available is not a manageable standard. Therapy is a place to examine that standard honestly and decide what you actually want to carry.
Many women have learned that putting themselves last is what good women do. Therapy helps distinguish between genuine generosity and patterns of self-erasure that are costing you more than you recognize.
This work is not about making women less connected to others. It is about building a foundation of genuine self-knowledge that makes every relationship more honest.
Working with Sabita Nandy, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Sabita has worked with women in Chicago for over 20 years. Her practice specifically addresses the role of modern women, the intersection of cultural expectation and personal identity, and the particular patterns that women inherit from their families and carry into their adult relationships and careers. She works with warmth, directness, and genuine cultural competence.
Loop Office: 125 S Wacker Drive, Suite 308
Monday through Thursday | 11 AM to 8 PM | Lunch-hour available
Hyde Park Office: 1525 E 53rd Street, Suite 433
Friday 10 AM to 8 PM | Saturday 9 AM to 3 PM
Online: Telehealth for Illinois women throughout the week
Sessions are 50 minutes. The work is tailored to what you bring. Most women begin with a specific presenting concern and find that the deeper work reveals a more fundamental set of questions underneath it.
Insurance: BCBS PPO, Aetna PPO, and United Healthcare PPO. Self-pay $200 per session.
One of the most common things women bring to therapy is exhaustion that does not have a simple cause. It is not one job or one relationship or one responsibility. It is the accumulated weight of doing everything for everyone, often extremely well, while privately running on empty.
Therapy is a place where that exhaustion can be named without apologizing for it. And where the patterns that generated it, the beliefs about what good women do and what they are allowed to want, can finally be examined.
Specialization in women’s experience: The Role of Modern Women is a specific area of focus in this practice, not a generic category
Cultural competence: Sabita works with women from South Asian, African American, Latinx, and other cultural backgrounds with specific attention to how cultural expectation and personal identity intersect
Generational healing lens: The patterns limiting you now were almost certainly modeled by the women in your family. Understanding that is the fastest route to changing it
Two accessible Chicago locations: Loop for weekday professional schedules. Hyde Park for evenings and Saturdays. Online for maximum flexibility throughout the week
Client testimonials describe a practice that takes women’s experience seriously and produces change that holds outside the therapy room.
No. Sabita works with adults of all genders. This page specifically addresses the experiences and pressures that are particular to women’s lives in Chicago. If you are a woman looking for a therapist who understands those pressures specifically, this practice is built for that.
Anxiety, burnout, relationship strain, identity questions, cultural and family expectations, grief, trauma, career pressure, self-image, and the particular exhaustion of managing multiple roles simultaneously are the most common presenting concerns.
Yes. The challenges of motherhood, including matrescence (the identity shift of becoming a mother), maternal burnout, relationship strain post-children, and navigating family expectations around parenting, are specific areas of focus.
Yes. The intersection of cultural expectation, family loyalty, and personal identity is one of the areas Sabita has the deepest experience with. Second-generation women navigating the gap between their families’ expectations and their own lives are a significant part of this practice.
For most individual therapy work, yes. Telehealth sessions are available throughout the week for Illinois residents. Many women use online therapy for its scheduling flexibility, particularly around childcare and work commitments.
in-person and online options throughout Illinois.
Friday 10 AM – 8 PM
Saturday 9 AM – 3 PM
1525 East 53rd Street
Suite 433
Chicago, IL 60615
Parking: Paid parking available behind Akira and paid street parking.
Public Transit: CTA and Metra
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday
11 AM – 8 PM
125 South Wacker Drive
Suite 308
Chicago, IL 60606
Parking: Paid street parking or multiple public garages..
Public Transit: CTA & Metra.
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Springfield, Champaign, Bloomington, Rockford, Peoria, Joliet, Aurora, Elgin, Waukegan, and all Illinois communities via secure telehealth.
