About Ana
Ana Sikula is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She speaks English and Spanish and offers straightforward support for parenting challenges, grief, trauma, and life transitions. Her style is calm and practical and aimed at making small, useful changes people can use every day.
Ana creates a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients can name what feels hard. She focuses on clear communication skills, building coping strategies, and strengthening emotional awareness.
Background and approach
Sessions often include gentle skills practice, reflection on family patterns, and moments to notice personal values and goals. Her background includes a decade of clinical experience working with workplace stress, caregiving strain, and blended family issues. She also has experience with immigration-related concerns, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and fertility and parenting stress.
Ana integrates knowledge from multiple therapeutic approaches to match what a person needs in the moment. Therapy with Ana tends to be collaborative. She listens first, then offers practical tools like thought reframing, mindfulness exercises, and ways to improve emotional connection.
When relationships or attachment patterns show up, she helps people track how early experiences shape current reactions. Outside of work she is a partner and mother of two boys and enjoys cooking, travel, and community projects. She brings that grounded perspective into sessions, aiming to help people build resilience and find clearer direction in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches that work well online
Ana commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck and then act in ways that match their values. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connection patterns affect current relationships and supports changes in how people relate to others.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client will talk about goals, try methods, and adjust the plan together. That collaborative process helps decide whether skills-focused techniques, emotion-focused work, or a mix feels most useful.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when video is not an option, and live chat or text-based messaging support shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use the kinds of exercises that best match each person's life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish