About April
April Lacey is a licensed counselor in Illinois with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people move toward more stable relationships and better emotional balance. April aims to create a warm, encouraging space where clients can speak honestly and begin to make practical changes.
April has worked in psychiatric units, crisis lines, community mental health, and group practice settings. That range exposed her to a variety of concerns, including anxiety, depression, trauma, anger, self-esteem struggles, and parenting challenges.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with mood disorders, ADHD, grief, and career stress. Her work draws on several therapy styles to match what a person needs in the moment. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a trusting relationship and meeting the person where they are. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. Mindfulness techniques are included when slowing down and noticing the present helps reduce reactivity.
Motivational Interviewing is used when someone wants to make a change but feels stuck. April emphasizes collaboration in sessions. She listens for individual strengths and practical next steps.
Sessions are aimed at clear, manageable goals rather than jargon or long-term labels.
How April’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds affect current relationships and helps people notice patterns that repeat. This approach can be helpful for intimacy-related issues, abandonment concerns, or family problems by naming relational habits and trying new ways of relating.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people identify unhelpful thoughts, test them, and practice small behavior changes that reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, or mood problems.
Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship. That stance helps people feel heard and supported while they decide goals and try practical steps to cope with life changes or stress.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. Sessions are collaborative so approaches can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low, live chat offers a faster check-in, and messaging supports brief updates or reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English