Barbara Wahler, LCSW

Barbara Wahler is an LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) with 31 years of experience supporting youth and adults as they navigate relationship strain and life transitions. She focuses on restoring connection across a wide range of situations - from parent-child and couple communication difficulties to blended family challenges, questions of sexual identity, and the complexities faced by mixed-race partnerships and households.

Her work centers on relationships and identity, addressing concerns such as self-esteem, parenting, addictions, grief, intimacy, depression, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and issues that arise for young adults and women. Additional focus areas include attachment and blended family dynamics, body image and sexuality, communication and control issues, guilt and shame, life purpose and midlife concerns, financial stressors, multicultural and discrimination-related difficulties, and the practical problems of family life.

Therapeutically she uses a relational, client-centered stance informed by family systems. Her clinical approaches include Client-Centered Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Internal Family Systems. In practice she draws on varied methods to reach clients where they are - moving, drawing, playing, listening to music, or engaging in conversation - always with the aim of improving communication and promoting healing and wholeness.

She received her Master of Social Work from Loyola University Chicago and brings decades of experience helping people reconnect and open channels of communication across generations and relationships. Barbara works with people from diverse cultural backgrounds and brings a compassionate, strengths-based approach to the work.