About Ibi
Ibi Jessica Jeremiah is a licensed clinical social worker who brings a personal and grounded style to therapy. She writes from experience and aims to create a warm, honest space for people facing hard moments. Her voice blends practicality with compassion so clients feel understood and guided toward clearer choices.
Her work centers on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and grief. She also supports people navigating relationship and intimacy-related issues, career shifts, and challenges tied to LGBT identity.
Background and approach
Compassion fatigue, postpartum depression, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, and sexual assault and abuse are additional focus areas she takes seriously. Her background includes six years working across maternal and child health, homeless youth and family services, traumatic brain injury support, HIV care, and community mental health.
Those roles shaped how she looks at systems, resources, and practical barriers people face when they seek help. She uses a mix of clinical methods alongside somatic practices and sound bowl healing to help people manage symptoms and reconnect with their bodies. Sessions include direct problem-solving, pacing, and grounding exercises that fit each person’s needs.
She aims for approaches that feel realistic and doable in day-to-day life. Clients can expect a culturally aware, values-forward approach. Ibi identifies as a Black, queer, polyamorous mother and creative, and she says those lived experiences inform her work.
She practices in Illinois as an LCSW and offers services in English.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Her work combines evidence-based therapeutic techniques with body-focused practices. One approach uses focused clinical methods to identify patterns and build coping skills for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. This involves short exercises, practical coping strategies, and step-by-step goal setting to reduce day-to-day distress.She also integrates somatic practices that attend to bodily sensations and grounding. These techniques help people notice physical responses to stress and learn simple ways to regulate breath, posture, and movement. Sound bowl healing is used as an adjunct to promote relaxation and present-moment awareness for those who find it helpful.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions can shift over time as priorities change, with the therapist checking in about what’s working and what should be adjusted.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper processing, phone sessions can fit into busy days or when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text messaging provide shorter check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to build consistency while fitting work, caregiving, or daily routines into therapy.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English