About Ana
Ana Sikula is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or family struggles. She speaks English and Spanish and brings ten years of clinical experience to conversations about parenting, career strain, grief, and identity concerns. Ana uses straightforward, practical methods to help people manage strong emotions and improve communication.
She listens without judgment and helps people notice what matters most to them.
How Ana works
Sessions focus on small, doable steps that build resilience over time. In therapy she draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy to clarify values and strengthen self-direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy inform work on patterns, thoughts, and emotional connection.
Attachment-Based Therapy is used to understand how early relationships shape current struggles. Her experience includes support for people coping with trauma, caregiving stress, blended family issues, and fertility or end-of-life concerns. She also helps with ADHD-related challenges, sleep problems, eating and food-related issues, and compassion fatigue.
Practical coaching around career decisions and transitions is part of her toolbox. Outside of practice she is a parent and values community, healthy cooking, and lifelong learning. That perspective informs a collaborative style that blends empathy with clear goals.
Ana tailors each plan to the person in front of her, working step by step toward better day-to-day functioning.
Ana lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Ana works with
The areas below are the ones Ana selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people get clearer about what matters to them and take action toward those values even when feelings are difficult. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns to understand current trust, closeness, and conflict issues and can inform work on intimacy and family dynamics.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes an empathetic, non-judgmental conversation where the person sets the pace and goals. This approach supports self-exploration and helps people find their own direction when coping with stress, identity questions, or parenting challenges. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods make the most sense for their goals, needs, and preferences. That can mean combining elements from different approaches and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and daily life.
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