About Ivan
Ivan Velasco is a licensed counselor in Illinois with 30 years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people navigate relationship and family changes, trauma recovery, and questions about intimacy and identity. Ivan speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese and brings a multicultural perspective to sessions.
He works with people dealing with LGBT concerns, parenting stresses, and family conflict. He also addresses issues such as blended family adjustments, divorce and separation, fatherhood challenges, and communication problems.
Background and approach
Clients may bring concerns about infertility of direction in life, midlife transitions, or immigrant-related stresses. Ivan has long experience helping people cope with sexual trauma, sexual assault, and process and sex-related addictions. He helps people address infidelity and rebuild trust, or explore issues around intimacy and sexual behavior.
His style aims to be straightforward and empathetic, with attention to the cultural context that shapes each person's experience. Sessions may include practical strategies for managing difficult feelings, improving communication, and setting boundaries. He supports men working through role and identity questions and assists people searching for purpose after major life changes.
Ivan frames work as a collaborative process where goals are set together. Clients can connect through multiple online formats. He accepts international clients and adapts to varied life situations, offering options that fit different schedules and needs.
Approach and options for online therapy
Ivan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on relationships, trauma recovery, and sexual health. One common approach emphasizes building stronger communication skills and clearer boundaries to reduce conflict and improve intimacy. This method helps people negotiate difficult conversations and rebuild trust after issues like infidelity.Another strand centers on trauma-informed care that helps people process past sexual assault or abuse at a manageable pace. That work typically includes grounding strategies to manage strong emotions and step-by-step plans to reclaim safety in daily life.
Choosing a therapeutic approach is a cooperative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth work that benefits from face-to-face interaction, while phone calls can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or people who prefer written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep continuity when schedules or locations change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Portuguese