Anxiety
Worry that never quite switches off, treated with practical CBT so your days feel steadier.
Online Therapy in Illinois
We offer a quiet, confidential hour with a psychologist by secure video, so Illinois children and adolescents, the adults who care for them, couples, families, and seniors can talk without a difficult commute.
Currently accepting new clients
Request an Illinois appointmentPeople across Illinois reach out to us when they want a private hour that fits into a demanding week without adding traffic or train schedules. We work with parents in Naperville arranging care for a child or an adolescent, couples in Evanston, and adults in Springfield or university towns like Urbana-Champaign. We also meet with older clients in Peoria whose difficulties are the ordinary ones that have simply become too heavy to carry unaided. Whether your household is navigating a family transition or individual stress, sessions take place from the privacy of your own home.
A virtual visit lets one clinician stay with you through a move from Urbana-Champaign to Chicago, or through a summer back in Bloomington-Normal, so long as you remain in Illinois or another participating jurisdiction when the hour begins. That continuity matters just as much to a family settling into a new neighborhood as it does to an adult changing jobs. Because location at the time of the appointment governs where we can practice, please tell us before an address changes so we can ensure your care continues without interruption.
Online Therapy Services in Illinois
These are the concerns Illinois clients raise most often, each of them treated under a plan written for the person rather than a sequence applied to everyone.
Anxiety, Stress & Social Phobia
Persistent worry, social avoidance, and a body that will not settle all respond to structured practice. We work as much on the predictions underneath the worry as on the situations it has ruled out.
Depression & Mood Disorders
Low mood is easiest to see in what has stopped: the cooking, the phone calls, the walk that used to happen. Treatment starts there, with activity and contact, and works back toward the thinking that made stopping seem reasonable.
Learning Disabilities Assessment
When school or work has been a long uphill struggle and nobody has ever said why, an assessment can answer the question properly. Dr. Lusk decides in consultation what part of it suits a remote format.
Autism & ADHD (AuDHD) Testing
Questions about attention and about autism often arrive together, and years of partial answers usually precede them. Dr. Lusk's assessment work sorts one from the other; how much can be done by video is discussed before anything is booked.
Career Planning & Professional Growth
Training that has gone on too long, a promotion that turned the job into something unrecognizable, a field that no longer convinces: these bring people in as often as symptoms do. We keep appraisal apart from the anxiety around it.
Couples & Relationship Health
Partners attend together by video, which is often the only way two crowded calendars meet. The work is on the argument that keeps returning: what is being asked for, and what gets heard instead.
Concerns We Help With
Whether you meet us by secure video or in person at our Flagstaff office, these are the concerns we most often help with.
Depression
Low mood that drains interest and energy, met with patient, structured care that rebuilds one step at a time.
Trauma
Careful, paced work for difficult experiences, with you in control of what you share and when.
ADHD assessment and coaching
Clear testing when you need answers, and practical coaching for the schedules and habits that follow.
Young adults
Support through the first years on your own: school, work, independence, and the relationships that come with them.
Burnout and stress
For professionals running on empty: therapy for the exhaustion, and coaching for the work habits underneath it.
How we work with clients in Illinois
We draw on extensive professional experience to build a treatment plan that fits the week you actually have. For our Illinois clients, that might mean accommodating a demanding hospital shift, a long evening commute, or the academic calendar. Dr. Lusk brings extensive firsthand experience with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its surrounding communities, giving us a grounded understanding of the local environment for students, faculty, and area professionals alike. Our core modality is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), applied with cultural awareness from the very first assessment. We spell out our clinical reasoning as we go, working collaboratively so you recognize the coping strategies as your own. While we do not offer a quick fix, we focus on helping you navigate life's transitions effectively.
Your Illinois care team
Illinois clients work with Della S. Lusk, Ph.D., our Clinical Director, a bilingual psychologist whose clients range from schoolchildren to adults in later life and include couples and families.
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Della S. Lusk, Ph.D.
Clinical Director · Bilingual Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Lusk holds the Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology (APIT™) granted by the PSYPACT® Commission, which authorizes her to provide telepsychology to clients located in Illinois.
Dr. Lusk's clinical doctorate was awarded by the California School of Professional Psychology–San Diego in a program accredited by the APA, and her undergraduate degree by Smith College. She has practiced for more than twenty-five years and is qualified by the State of Arizona as an expert witness. Illinois clients see her for therapy with individuals, couples, and families and for group work, in English or Spanish. Psychological evaluation is also part of her practice; the in-person portions of any testing are completed at our Flagstaff office.
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Full biographies, training, and areas of expertise are listed on our providers page. You can also read Dr. Lusk’s licensure and credentials in full. You are welcome to ask any clinician directly about their qualifications and experience.
How telehealth licensing works in Illinois
Illinois is a participating state in PSYPACT®. Dr. Lusk holds the Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology (APIT™), issued by the PSYPACT® Commission, which is what authorizes telepsychology with a person located in Illinois while she practices from Arizona. No registration is required from you, and nothing has to be arranged at your end. The Commission's published roster is the record of who currently takes part.
Authorization follows your body rather than your campus mailbox, and that matters more here than in most places, because a great many of our Illinois clients spend part of the year at a family address somewhere else. Sitting in Illinois when the hour opens keeps the appointment covered. A break spent in another state does not necessarily do so, which is why we ask in advance and check. A permanent move raises the same question and is far easier to settle before the truck is loaded.
Participating jurisdictions are published by the compact commissions and can change. You can review current psychology participation at psypact.gov, find the relevant psychology licensing board through the PSYPACT® board directory, or check counseling privileges at CompactConnect. If you are not sure which applies to you, call (844) 774-7997 and we will confirm before you schedule.
Supporting Illinois students and faculty
Our Illinois caseload includes students, faculty, and staff from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois Chicago, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, Loyola University Chicago, DePaul University, Illinois State University, Wheaton College, Knox College, and the many other institutions listed below. Confidential care at a remove from your own counseling center is frequently the whole reason for calling.
Urbana-Champaign is where that experience is longest. We have worked with people studying, teaching and working on that campus for years.
All Illinois campuses we have worked with
Public Universities
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- University of Illinois Chicago
- University of Illinois Springfield
- Northern Illinois University
- Southern Illinois University Carbondale
- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
- Illinois State University
- Western Illinois University
- Eastern Illinois University
- Northeastern Illinois University
- Chicago State University
- Governors State University
Private Colleges & Universities
- University of Chicago
- Northwestern University
- Loyola University Chicago
- DePaul University
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- Wheaton College
- Knox College
- Lake Forest College
- Monmouth College
- Illinois College
- Augustana College
- Illinois Wesleyan University
- North Central College
- Elmhurst University
- Bradley University
- Millikin University
- Principia College
- Eureka College
- McKendree University
- Roosevelt University
- Columbia College Chicago
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Illinois communities we serve online
Our Illinois clients join from Chicago, Urbana-Champaign, Evanston, Springfield, Naperville, Peoria, and Bloomington-Normal, and from a good many smaller places besides. The list records where people happen to be sitting, not any limit on who may telephone.
Common questions about online therapy in Illinois
Who do you see in Illinois?
Adults make up the larger share, but we also see teenagers, younger children, and clients well into retirement, as well as couples and families. Concerns range from anxiety and low mood to attention and learning questions, grief, and relationship strain. Anything outside our scope we will name as such early on, and suggest a better direction.
Do you work with Illinois college students?
Yes, and a large share of the Illinois caseload is academic. A weekly hour can hold through a semester and through the breaks, so long as the authorization still covers where you are. For graduate students in particular, a clinician with no connection to the department is often the point, since a counseling center may sit inside the very institution being described in the session.
Can you complete ADHD or learning evaluations by video?
Dr. Lusk provides psychological and academic evaluations, attention and learning questions included. Whether a particular battery can be administered remotely depends on the battery and on the question it is meant to answer, and that is worked out in consultation once the referral question is clear rather than promised beforehand.
Can appointments be held in Spanish?
Dr. Lusk is bilingual in English and Spanish, so an Illinois client who would rather work in Spanish can do so, including at intake and when evaluation findings are explained. In a family where one generation is more at ease in Spanish than the next, a session sometimes moves between the two languages.
What should the first call cover?
Ring (844) 774-7997 or write to info@psychotherapy.com and our office will handle the rest. Staff take a few details, listen to what has been happening, send the fee agreement, and settle any out-of-network questions ahead of a first appointment, so that none of it has to be raised in the consulting hour.
How to get started in Illinois
Request a confidential appointment with Dr. Lusk in our secure online scheduler. We will check that Illinois is where you will be sitting at session time, send the fee agreement, and confirm your first hour.
Prefer to talk first? Call or email the office.
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