About Russell
Russell Silver is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois with 12 years of experience. He focuses on helping people handle relationship challenges, stress, anxiety, addictions, parenting strains, and career or life changes. He aims to remove stigma and plain-talk through the first steps of seeking help.
He frames work around a person's strengths and practical goals instead of only dwelling on problems. Sessions emphasize processing emotions, noticing unhelpful thinking and building more effective habits.
How Russell works
He uses a blend of client-centered talk, cognitive tools, and mindfulness to create useful change. Russell has a long background in hospital outpatient care across rehabilitation, mental health, and substance use. That experience informs his approach to chronic disability, serious mental illness, and recovery support.
He also brings knowledge of systems such as VA healthcare from his military service. For relationship concerns he uses methods drawn from the Gottman approach alongside motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques. He adapts interventions to what each person finds workable and realistic in day-to-day life.
Parents and caregivers can expect straightforward strategies to ease family stress and communication problems. Russell describes therapy as a collaboration. He encourages people to ask questions and take time to find a good fit.
His goal is to help clients return to better functioning at work, home, and in intimate relationships.
Russell lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Russell works with
The areas below are the ones Russell selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Approach and options for online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters most to the person. It helps people feel heard and guides sessions from their goals and concerns rather than a fixed agenda.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior. It teaches practical skills to test unhelpful thinking and build healthier habits, which can help with anxiety, stress, and mood struggles.
The Gottman Method offers clear tools for couples to improve communication and reduce conflict. When relationship issues are the focus, it provides structured exercises to strengthen connection and solve recurring problems.
Russell treats choosing methods as a team effort. He will talk through goals, preferences, and what tends to work in early sessions. Together they pick approaches that match the client's needs and adjust plans as progress unfolds.
Online therapy lets people meet by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video can feel most like an in-person visit, phone works when bandwidth is limited or video isn't needed, live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins and ongoing coaching. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy days.
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