Tzu-Ping Cheng, LCPC

Tzu-Ping Cheng (name pronounced close to Su-Ping) brings a cross-cultural perspective shaped by roots in Taiwan and years living in the United States since 2008. She has observed how relocations and other major life transitions can interrupt familiar routines, unsettle a sense of self, and create feelings of isolation, uncertainty, and doubt. At the same time, she sees those same disruptions as opportunities for growth - moments when a preferred self and new possibilities can emerge.

Licensed in Illinois for 12 years as an LCPC - a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - she approaches therapy in a collaborative, narrative-focused way that centers each person’s story. She integrates client-centered principles, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques to help people clarify values, explore meanings, and move toward practical change. Her work emphasizes respect for diversity and equity, and she attends to the many facets of identity so that diagnostic labels do not limit a person’s potential.

Tzu-Ping works with concerns that commonly accompany life transitions and relationship shifts, including trauma and abuse, parenting and blended family issues, stress and anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and identity-related matters such as gender dysphoria and LGBTQ needs. She also focuses on areas like adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, communication problems, immigration issues, and career and life-purpose exploration. Conversations in therapy are intended to support clients as they define their preferred direction and build practical steps toward those goals.

Her style is warm and collaborative, inviting exploration of new territories while honoring each person’s cultural background and lived experience. She frames therapy as a shared journey of meaning and development rather than a one-size-fits-all intervention.