About Tatyana
Tatyana Fertelmeyster helps people who feel stuck by listening and offering clear, practical support. She introduces straightforward tools to manage stress, anxiety, grief, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. Her approach also includes coaching for career and life transitions.
Tatyana holds an IL LCPC, which she uses alongside 15 years of professional experience. She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and focuses on strengths that can be used to move forward.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-oriented so progress feels tangible. She works with people navigating relationship problems, attachment concerns, communication breakdowns, and separation or divorce. She also addresses guilt, shame, loneliness, and questions about life purpose and self-love.
Coaching work targets practical steps for career change and life transitions. In a typical session she will listen closely, reflect back what she hears, and offer tasks or exercises you can try between appointments. The work blends emotional processing with practical planning so clients can make steady changes.
Tatyana emphasizes small, doable steps that fit into everyday life. Her bilingual skills include English and Russian, which can help clients express themselves more fully. She practices in Illinois and brings a calm, steady presence to clinical and coaching conversations.
Evidence-based approaches and online sessions
Many clients benefit from a mix of evidence-based techniques and practical coaching. Behavioral approaches focus on small changes to daily habits and coping skills, which can reduce anxiety and stress symptoms and build routine. Trauma-informed methods emphasize safe pacing and processing difficult memories while teaching grounding tools to manage overwhelming emotions. Coaching techniques target concrete steps for career transitions and life changes, helping clients set goals and make steady progress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to test methods and adjust plans based on needs, goals, and what feels most helpful. This shared decision-making helps match emotional processing with action-oriented coaching so therapy fits real life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video works well when visual connection and deeper conversation matter. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Text and live chat are useful for shorter check-ins, in-between support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to keep steady progress over time.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Russian