Corliss Ivy, LCPC

Corliss Ivy is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) and a Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Provider with more than 18 years of clinical experience helping people navigate difficult emotional and relational challenges. She focuses on identifying and addressing the barriers that keep individuals from creating the life they want, and she emphasizes clients' strengths and motivation toward self-care.

Her academic background includes a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a master’s degree in Counseling and Human Services from Roosevelt University in Chicago. She also completed post-graduate training through the Advanced Psychodynamic Fellowship in Clinical Practice at the University of Chicago, Social Service Administration, which further informed her psychodynamic understanding of interpersonal patterns and inner experience.

In practice she integrates psychodynamic perspectives with cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness-based techniques, interpersonal neurobiology insights, and client-centered principles to tailor treatment to each person’s needs. Her work commonly addresses stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, coping with life changes, anger, self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and related areas such as divorce, domestic violence, guilt and shame, life purpose, midlife crisis, post-traumatic stress, self-love, and sexual assault recovery.

Corliss approaches therapy as a collaborative process, aiming to build a therapeutic relationship in which people feel seen, supported, and valued while they explore change and healing.