Essence Lee

Essence Lee is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 10 years of professional experience. She provides focused care for people navigating stress, anxiety, self-esteem challenges, depression, coping with life changes, grief, bipolar presentations, and compassion fatigue. Her additional interests include commitment and communication difficulties, feelings of emptiness, family concerns, forgiveness work, guilt and shame, mood disorders, issues related to prejudice and discrimination, self-love, and women's issues.

She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness-based approaches to help clients notice patterns, build practical skills, and cultivate present-moment awareness. Essence approaches each individual as the expert of their own story and aims to identify existing strengths that can be used when addressing current challenges. She acknowledges that beginning therapy can require courage and treats that first step as an important part of the process. Sessions are intended to be collaborative and oriented toward skills and insight that the client finds meaningful.