About Petia
Petia Detchevska welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. She listens with patience and steadiness and helps clients break problems into workable steps. Petia aims to reduce daily stress and help people feel more in control of their thoughts and actions.
Petia earned a degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from National Louis University in Chicago in 2017. She holds an LCPC, which is listed as IL LCPC, and has seven years of experience in behavioral mental health settings across different roles.
Background and approach
Her approach is practical and down-to-earth. Sessions often focus on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and learning new coping skills. She uses a mix of client-centered methods and cognitive-behavioral strategies to set clear, achievable goals.
She also draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy when clients need tools for emotion regulation and tolerance. These approaches help people accept difficult feelings while taking steps that match their values. Petia works with concerns such as anxiety, depression, stress, addictions, sleep trouble, anger, and relationship and family issues.
She also pays attention to body image, codependency, life transitions, multicultural concerns, and immigration-related stress. In sessions she focuses on practical steps like goal setting, skill practice, and regular check-ins on progress. The aim is steady improvement that fits each person’s life and priorities.
Online approaches that help you build skills and calm strong emotions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, which can ease the impact of anxiety and depression.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing concrete skills to change behavior. CBT is useful for worries, low mood, sleep problems, and many everyday stresses because it breaks problems into manageable tasks.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. It can be a good fit for people who struggle with intense emotions, impulsivity, or relationship conflict.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try strategies, track what works, and adjust the plan to fit the person’s life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video sessions allow face-to-face work on skills and emotion work. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text can support quick check-ins, homework guidance, or ongoing skill practice between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Anger management
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English