About Traci
Traci White is a licensed clinician with five years of experience helping people sort through difficult emotions and life changes. She works in Illinois and holds the LCPC credential, and she focuses on building straightforward, practical plans that clients can use between sessions. Her background includes community mental health, in-home counseling, long-term care settings, and independent practice.
That mix gives her experience with a wide range of concerns, from mood and anxiety struggles to trauma and complex conditions such as ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Background and approach
Traci uses a trauma-informed stance and aims to make sessions calm and non-judgmental. She places emphasis on building trust and a sense of safety before tackling painful memories or habits. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, with attention to what works in daily life.
Clinically she draws on therapies that focus on values, behavior change, and emotional skills. This includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based approaches. She also weaves in client-centered and dialectical strategies when they fit the client’s needs.
People come to her for many reasons: stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, grief, addiction, bipolar mood issues, and parenting stress. She also supports people facing body-image struggles, abandonment wounds, dissociation, domestic violence aftermath, and other complex histories. Sessions are practical and paced to each person.
Traci helps clients set small, achievable goals and practices useful skills between visits. She emphasizes steady progress, emotional regulation, and clearer connections with the people who matter most.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck and to commit to actions that align with their values. It is useful when someone wants clearer direction and more willingness to face hard emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete techniques to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationship patterns and how early connections affect current bonds, which can be useful for intimacy, abandonment, or family-of-origin issues.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, explain options, and collaborate to try methods that fit your situation. Adjustments are made over time based on what helps you make steady progress.
Online sessions offer flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls let you have face-to-face conversations when travel is difficult. Phone sessions can be a faster check-in and use less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when writing helps you process. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules while still working on skills and emotional growth.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English